Isaiah 25

WEEK 24                                                   Isaiah 25  

SATURDAY  Reflections

The previous chapter spoke of God’s final judgment and now Isaiah is filled with praise for God’s perfect faithfulness. The prophet says that God has “done marvelous thing, things planned long ago”(verse 1, NIV). God isn’t in a hurry. God has as we would say long-term goals.

 

When I lived near Terre Haute, there was a company that had spent a few years and millions of dollars investing in a project that was going to be launch in a year. However, new corporate management took over who had promised investors quick profits. They sold off everything. The facility which would have in just another year made them back all the money they had invested with the land and buildings were left to be sold off. Yes, they showed profits but those quick profits paled to what they would have made if only they had been patient. 

 

God is very patient. His plans span millenniums. This is important to remember when we don’t see the quick gains we want. God is investing us for the long-term and sometimes long-term investing means we don’t see any profit now. 

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Isa 25:1-12

(1)  O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.

(2)  For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

(3)  Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

(4)  For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

(5)  Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

(6)  And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

(7)  And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

(8)  He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the LORD hath spoken it.

(9)  And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

(10)  For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.

(11)  And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.

(12)  And the fortress of the high fort of thy walls shall he bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

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