Year 6, Day 40: Isaiah 56

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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.

There is really something neat about the opening of Isaiah 56.  I hope that you can feel the invitation in the words.  God tells that in His kingdom there is a different way to measure importance.

For example, take a look at Isaiah 56:3.  In this verse we can understand that the foreigner is not cast away.  In the world, if you are strange or different it is easy to feel unaccepted, rejected, and unwanted.  But in the Lord even the foreigner is not cast aside.  When we are in the Father, we are never a foreigner.  God loves us the way that we are.  Regardless of who we are or where we come from, we can know the love of our Father.

Or, we can look at the thought behind Isaiah 56:4.  In this verse we hear God talk about the eunuchs.  In the ancient world, there was nothing more tragic than being a eunuch.  A eunuch couldn’t have children.  They would never know what it was like to be a part of raising the next generation.  They wouldn’t know what it was like to have children who might ease the burden of growing old.  But in these verses we can hear that the Father is the inheritance of even the eunuch.  In the Father we get a name that will last forever, not merely a lineage that may be remembered a generation or two.

God as our Father is our greatest inheritance.  He is our greatest place of welcome.  In Him we can truly understand our meaning in life and our eternal destiny.

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