Isaiah 43:1-3, “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume […]
Isaiah 49:10, “…they shall not hunger or thirst, neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them, for he who has pity on them will lead them, and by springs of water will guide them.” And the one who leads us has pity on us because He is one of us (Revelation 7:17, the Lamb
Isaiah 30:15, “In returning and in rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” When circumstances shatter the legs of Christ’s sheep, they do not rage at but rest on and trust in Him and so find salvation and strength–may it be so for us.
Isaiah 27:4-5”…I would burn them up together. Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.” YHWH will consume the “thorns” that oppose Him in the fires of His wrath—yet even as He threatens this reality, He calls the thorns to enter into
Isaiah 26:19, “You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.” Isaiah 26:18-19, “…we were pregnant, we writhed, but we have given birth to wind. We have accomplished no deliverance in the earth…Your dead shall
Isaiah 19:21-22, 25, “And YHWH will make Himself known to the Egyptians, and the Egyptians will know YHWH in that day…And YHWH will strike Egypt, striking and healing, and they will return to YHWH, and He will listen to their pleas for mercy and heal them… ‘Blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the
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Jeremiah 48:31,38, “I wail for Moab; I cry out for Moab…I weep for you…for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares YHWH.” Isaiah 16:10-11, “I have put an end to the shouting. Therefore, my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir-hareseth.”
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Isaiah 11:6,9, “The wolf shall lie down with the lamb….They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of YHWH as the waters cover the sea.” A few thoughts…. First, the Branch is, of course, Jesus Christ (Rev.5:5). He is the Shoot
Isaiah 63:9, “In all their affliction, He was afflicted…” Two things to notice in this picture: First, the same nail is piercing both the hand of the believer and of Christ. In a mysterious sense which I am still—and will likely ever be—trying to wrap my mind around, Christ bore our sufferings on the
Isaiah 28:12, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose.” If we long to enter more fully into the rest that Christ gives, let us follow Him in pouring ourselves out to give rest to a sin-weary world — as He has given to us.
Isaiah 46:4, “…I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.” Isaiah 53:4, “Surely, He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows…” A song for today’s picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c26hIle6lKY I’m currently working on a script for a new animation that I plan to make the first or
Isaiah 53:4, “Surely, He has borne our griefs…” As I type it is 6pm on Sunday evening and news about the Sutherland Springs church shooting is flowing in via internet media outlets…. When we heard, Courtney and I prayed together…its hard to find words…Its hard to know how to respond with such an overload
Isaiah 52:15, “…he will sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.” May it be so….. Below you can read the string of thoughts from my journal that led me to this
Psalm 60:4-5, “You have set up a banner for those who fear you, that they may flee to it from the bow. That your beloved ones may be delivered, give salvation by your right hand and answer us!” I read these verses again today and was reminded of a journal entry from back in
Isaiah 57:15 “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit”
Isaiah 66:2, “But this is the one to whom I will look; he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.” What a simple and crucial reminder of the posture we are to take before the LORD our God. HIS word, HIS revelation–which for us means–HIS inspired scripture is to rest
Isaiah 38:17, “Behold, it was for my welfare that I had great bitterness; [and] in love you have delivered my life from the pit of destruction, for you have cast all my sins behind your back.” This passage was not from my reading this morning so I don’t have a journal entry to share
Psalm 6:7, “My eye wastes away because of grief…” Isaiah 43:2, “when you pass through the waters, I will be with you…” A few things to notice in these two passages. First, in Psalm 6, see that the Lord’s provision for David has not kept this “man after God’s own heart” from sleepless, grief-filled
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Isaiah 44:23, “Sing, O heavens, for YHWH has done it…break forth into singing, O mountains…for YHWH has redeemed Jacob and will display His beauty in Israel.”Matthew 27:51, “And the earth shook, and the rocks were split.” Since this picture did not grow out of a journal entry and was instead the product of post-reading musings,
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Isaiah 40:10-11, “Behold, the Lord God comes with might, and His arm rules for Him…He will tend His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs in His arms; He will carry them in His bosom…” I really love this passage from Isaiah because it–like many other places in scripture–sets before us both
