Year 6, Day 27: Isaiah 43

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Discipleship Focus: King

• King: This is the pinnacle of the Kingdom Triangle.  When we look towards God’s position in the universe, we acknowledge that He is an omnipotent king.  Authority comes from Him.  Power comes through His authority.  He is looking for representatives for His kingdom.

Reading through Isaiah 43 truly gives us a great figurative history of God’s work.  In Abraham, God gave the people faith.  Then the people went to Egypt, rebelled, and God had to ransom them.  He started by ransoming them out of Egypt.  As they were coming out of Egypt, God gave His people the Law to help them be more obedient.  They rebelled once more and now God is sending them to Assyria and Babylon.  He will ransom them once more out of bondage.

Why has God done all of this?  God has proved to all of humanity that we can handle neither grace nor law.  We receive them.  We certainly benefit from them.  But we cannot handle them.  Therefore, God takes matters into His own hands.  That’s why He sent Jesus to us.  God sends us Jesus to make the atonement that we can’t even handle.

That’s what I truly love about this chapter.  This chapter begins with God promising salvation.  In the middle we hear about our humanity and our inability to truly obey and follow God.  Then we hear that God is doing a new thing.  He’s doing something that only He can do.

Ultimately, that’s what makes Him worthy of being king.  Only he is capable of resolving the issue that we can’t resolve.  Only He is capable of doing something new – something that we can’t do.

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