Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Isaiah 63

The Holy Spirit is the heart of God. We must not break His heart. God in His infinite mercy and pity looked and saw no one to redeem us. So He saved us Himself. Out of His great love for His creation, He came down in the body of a man and gave up His life in exchange for ours. Jesus is the plumb line, the line where man connects to God…..it is in Him to save us but we must choose to accept this gift from God. How do we make others understand the love of God poured out in His only begotten Son, all God, all man? I am helpless in myself to do anything BUT
in the unity of the Godhead
nothing, absolutely nothing, is impossible to those who believe! When you hear Him calling do not harden your heart but open yourself to His loving embrace and be made whole.

63 Who is this who comes from Edom,

With dyed garments from Bozrah,


This One who is glorious in His apparel,


Traveling in the greatness of His strength?—

"I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."

2 Why is Your apparel red,

And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?

3 "I have trodden the winepress alone,

And from the peoples no one was with Me.

For I have trodden them in My anger,

And trampled them in My fury;

Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,

And I have stained all My robes.

4 For the day of vengeance is in My heart,

And the year of My redeemed has come.

5 I looked, but there was no one to help,

And I wondered

That there was no one to uphold;

Therefore My own arm brought salvation for Me;

And My own fury, it sustained Me.

7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord

And the praises of the Lord,

According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,

And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,


Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,


According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.

8 For He said, "Surely they are My people,

Children who will not lie."

So He became their Savior.

9 In all their affliction He was afflicted,

And the Angel of His Presence saved them;


In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;

And He bore them and carried them

All the days of old.

10 But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit;

So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,

And He fought against them.

11 Then he remembered the days of old,

Moses and his people, saying:

"Where is He who brought them up out of the sea

With the shepherd of His flock?


Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,


13 Who led them through the deep,

As a horse in the wilderness,


That they might not stumble?"

The NKJV says this: A close relative of a slave had the right and duty to buy back the slave and rescue a family member from destitution. Isaiah, representing the people, publicly proclaims God's saving mercies. The plural words lovingkindnesses and praises refer to the Lord's many acts of love and loyalty to His people. The word lovingkindnesses is translated "sure mercies". God shares the hurt of His people. Christ is the greater Shepherd. It is rare in the pages of the Hebrew Bible to find the explicit statement of the Fatherhood of God, although it is often presented implicitly. Abraham and Israel, the people's human fathers were limited in their knowledge by time and space—in contrast to the Lord, the people's Father and Redeemer from Everlasting.


 


 


 

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