Year 6, Day 35: Isaiah 51

Theological Commentary: Click Here

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.

I think that Isaiah 51 contains one of my favorite pieces of advice: “Look to the rock from which you were hewn.”  Of course, in the context of the verses it is easy to think about Abraham.  God called Abraham because of his faithfulness.  Clearly we can see ourselves as being hewn out of the same faithfulness that God saw in Abraham.

However, I don’t actually think that’s the deepest part of what God is saying through Isaiah.  Who gave Abraham the opportunity to receive faith in the first place?  Could it be that Abraham isn’t the focus of this question by God through Isaiah?

I believe that God is actually the rock out of which we are hewn.  It is God that gave Abraham the opportunity to receive faith.  Abraham was himself hewn from God, so can we be hewn from God as well!

So when we come back to the idea of discipleship, this idea is very neatly summed up in the idea of Father.  God created us.  He gifts us with many abilities and opportunities.  He is ultimately the rock out which each of us and our faith is hewn.

<><