Well, today is something of a special Monday for many of you and certainly for me. My daughters are off to college; Cassidy for the first time. And my son is starting high school.
Even if you're retired and have no kids in school, you at least notice the increased traffic from all the young folks getting back to their studies.
Time moves on.
But so does God and his promises. Like time, God and his promises move along in life with us, which is why we can savor memories and celebrate new beginnings and anticipate the future all at once.
One of my favorite chapters in the whole Bible is Isaiah 25. It's full of celebration that God is faithful. He has blessed us in the past. His promises for the future are true. And for the present, for special Mondays like today, he's our strength, our shelter, or whatever we may need.
Enjoy.
Isaiah 25:1-9 -- (1) O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
(2) For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
(3) Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.
(4) For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall,
(5) like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.
(6) On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.
(7) And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.
(8) He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.
(9) It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation."
Praise God!
(For an archive of "Day of Praise", please visit my daughter Calley's website at http://dayofpraisepc.blogspot.com/?m=1)
Pastor Chris
"The gospel is the story of Jesus [what God's only Son has done for us that we can't do for ourselves], spoken as a promise." - Robert Jenson
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