07/11/2020 – Day 041 – Isaiah 29 – 33
33:22 : “For the Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Law giver, The Lord is our King; He will save us.”
I am struck in this reading on the ebb and flow between God’s forbearance and His righteous anger and judgment. To the Lord, a thousand years is but a day, but the final redemption and judgment will make all things right and perfect again.
“When I enter the beautiful city And the saints all around me appear, I hope that someone will tell me; It was you who invited me here.” (sublime!) by Corrie Ten Boom
I very much am compelled to include this footnote in my bible from 33:14 Everlasting burning: “Consider these powerful words from Edward Payson, an 18th century preacher, on our responsibility to warn the lost:
‘We all deserve perdition, a thousand times, for our stupid insensibility to the situation of those perishing around us. We profess to believe the Word of God, but can you all prove that you believe it? Do you all act, as if you believed it? What, believe that many of your acquitances, your children, are in danger of the fate which has now been described!
Dare you go to God and say: ‘Lord, I believe thy word, I believe that all thy threatenings will be fulfilled’, and then turn away, and cooly pursue your worldly business, without uttering one agonizing cry for those who are exposed to these threatenings? Dare you go and claim responsibility to Christ, and profess to have his Spirit, without which you are none of his, and then make no effort or only a few faint efforts , to save those for whom he shed not tears only, but blood?
Go, I may say to such, go, inconsistent, cruel, hard-hearted professors; go, slumber over the ruin of immortal souls; wrap yourself up in your selfish temporal interests, and say, I have no time to spare for rescuing others from everlasting burnings. Go wear out your life in acquiring property for your children, and leave their souls to perish in the fire that never shall be quenched. Go, adorn their bodies, and banish from them, if possible, the seeds of disease; but leave in their bosoms that immoral worm, which will gnaw them for ever. And when God asks, where is they child? thy brother? thy friend? reply, with impious Cain, I know not, am I his keeper?”
And then on the in the last paragraph of a questions and objections section in 2 Kings 2 of my Bible:
“… Mere words could never express by infinite gratitude to Him for giving me life, and then for saving me from being justly damned in hell for my sins. But I will have eternity to love and worship Him at whose right hand are ‘pleasures forevermore’ (Psa 16:11). No enjoyment on this sad, old earth has come even close to the unending pleasures that God has prepared ‘for those who love Him’ (1 Cor 2:9) What a tragedy for people to miss out, simply because they refuse to repent and trust the Savior.”
Soli Deo Gloria!
Love,
Your brother in Christ,
Jimmy