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🌅MORNING— Behold My Servant “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him; He will bring forth justice to the nations. He will not cry out or raise His voice, Nor make His voice heard in the street. A bruised reed He will…

🌅MORNING— Speak Kindly to Her “Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your God. “Speak kindly to Jerusalem; and call out to her, that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed, that she has received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.” Joseph Parker once said, “Preach to the suffering and…

🌅MORNING— Banquet After the Final Battle “O LORD, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; For You have worked wonders, Plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness” Isaiah 25 is not a song after one ordinary battle. It rises out of Isaiah 24, where the prophet has…

🌅MORNING— A Fruit Bearing Branch🌿 “Then a shoot🌱 will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch🌿 from his roots will bear fruit.” Isaiah 10 ends with trees🌳 falling. The proud forests🌳 of Assyria are chopped down. The image is one of devastation—axes swinging, trunks crashing, empires collapsing. What comes next is a powerful,…

🌅MORNING— When the Forest is Shaking 🌳🪵 “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel.” War was on the horizon. In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, two enemies—Rezin of Aram and Pekah of Israel—marched…

🌅MORNING— I Saw the Lord “In the year of King Uzziah’s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.” Isaiah dates his vision by a death. Not “in the fifty-second year of King Uzziah.”But “in the year of King Uzziah’s death.” It…

🌅MORNING— Prophet for a Prosperous Populace “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz concerning Judah and Jerusalem, which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.” The book takes its name from the prophet: Isaiah — “Yahweh is salvation.”Before we read a single accusation or promise, we are…

🌅MORNING— When the House Begins to Lean “Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no delight in them” Scholar Derek Kidner compared the three wisdom books to houses: Ecclesiastes 12 is that decaying house. “The keepers…

🌅MORNING— The Trap That Drains a Working Soul “I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.” Dorothy Sayers once wrote: “In nothing has the Church so lost her hold on reality as…

🌅MORNING— The Rhythm of God’s Seasons “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.” For many people, Ecclesiastes 3 is the book of Ecclesiastes. There is a time to be born and a time to die.A time to plant and a time to uproot.A time to weep and a…