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Discipleship Focus: Father
- Father: This is the pinnacle of the Covenant Triangle. God is the Father. He is the creator. He is love. Our relationship with the Father is rooted in His love for us. We get our identity through Him. When the Father is in our life, obedience becomes clear.
Yesterday
I focused on God as King. Today, I’m
going to focus upon God as Father. As we
talk about the coming of the captivity under Assyrian and then Babylon, Isaiah
looks beyond this into a time of hope.
Isaiah sees a time when God restores the nation. Isaiah perceives a time when righteous reign,
justice thrives, and leadership can be counted on to put forth a good role
model.
What
brings about this time of peace under God?
God Himself brings it to us. The
Father loves us and cares for us. He wants
to bring us into a time of His peace and His righteousness.
What I
find truly telling about this dynamic is that we hear God speak through Isaiah
into the women. Isaiah isn’t reaching
the leaders and the men of Jerusalem.
Now, God uses Isaiah to try and reach the women. If Isaiah wants to bring a message of hope
from God, what better people to hear this message than the women, the mothers,
the leaders of the home, and the people responsible for raising future
generations? We can see the hand of the
Father in this chapter as God speaks into the homes of a besieged city and
gives them a message of hope in which they can believe.
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