Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Chapter 20


“For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah is talking about the trials of the House of Israel, but it is easy to relate, for we have many afflictions.  “I have chosen thee,” is an important place of contact with God.  He has chosen me to fulfill my life in ways that brings honor to him and to my posterity, also my ancestors who have been cheering me on. “He” is my “Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”  He makes this promise, “O that thou hast hearkened to my commandments—then had thy peace been as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.”  I want this for me and my family.  This motivates me to keep his commandments.   

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