ISAIAH, CHAPTER 26, VERSES 12-18
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 26, VS 12
12 Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 26, VS 12
- 12– But the people of God have His peace, for our works are from Him, and are not our own. We are, at best, “unprofitable servants” Luke 17:10 says, “So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. “ Everything goes back to, and comes from, Our Lord. Our very breath comes from Him, and everything else. He is all-Wise, and knows what is best for us, therefore we can be in perfect peace no matter what happens.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 26, VS 13-14
13 O Lord our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name.
14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 26, VS 13-14
- 13-14– The things, and people of this world can be our gods. We must come to Our Lord often and ask Him to remove any evil in us…to show us the way to a pure love for Him that can only come from Him. We humans have a way of wanting to do things ourselves, of putting pride into the mix whenever we can, of loving things, (even Godly things) more than Our Lord. We need to constantly be on our faces before Him in repentance and re-dedicate ourselves to Him and Him alone!!!
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 26, VS 15
15 Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 26, VS 15
The Gospel has been spread to the ends of the earth, and the Body of Christ is increased….the Nation of Heaven is enlarged.
SCRIPTURE: CHAPTER 26, VS 16-18
16 Lord, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
17 Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.
18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
APPLICATION: CHAPTER 26, VS 16-18
Of ourselves, we are weak, and could not bring about goodness and righteousness in the world. We try, painfully, to impress the Lord, and obey Him, but we always fall short because we are merely human.