Year 6, Day 9: Isaiah 25

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Discipleship Focus: Calling, Protection

• Calling asks whether or not God has called the person to the particular work at this point in their life.
• Protection: In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus teaches us to pray that God might deliver us from evil – even the Evil One.  Sometimes we need God’s protection from the sin around us.  Sometimes we need protection from the sinful people around us.  Other times we need protection from the sin that lies within ourselves. In any case, Jesus’ point is clear.  We need protection from the Father to make it through each and every day.

Isaiah 25 is one of my favorite hope chapters in the Old Testament.  Here we see very clearly that there will be a day when God wipes away every tear.  There will be a day when God sets out an incredible everlasting provision for us.  There will be a day when God delivers us and protects us even from the clutches of death.  That’s a testament of hope!

But as we go through this chapter, we need to really understand the issue of calling.  It is God’s calling to save us.  Isaiah 25:9 is really clear about this fact.  It is God who saves us.  We are not righteous enough to save ourselves, He will bring salvation into our midst.

Then what is our calling?  If we are not to save ourselves, what are we to do?  Again, Isaiah 25:9 tells us quite clearly.  We are to wait for Him.  When He saves us, we are to rejoice in His glory.  What is our job?  Our job is to wait for Him to act and then join Him in His action.  Once He acts, we are to rejoice in whatever it is that He is doing.

So often we want to be ahead of God.  So often we want to guess what God is doing so that we can be in on the ground level.  But that really isn’t what we are called to do.  We are called to wait until God works and then join Him.  We are to let Him lead so that we can follow.  We get ourselves into trouble when we try and anticipate God.  He doesn't need us anticipating His job so that He has to correct our assumption.  He needs us to wait patiently and then get on board once He works.  That is our calling.

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