Monday, November 13, 2017

Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Monday, 13 November 2017 "The Ultimate Antidote" by Renee DeVault - Isaiah 52:1-12


Reflecting God – Embrace Holy Living - WordAction - The Foundry Publishing House of Kansas City, Missouri, United States - The Global Church of the Nazarene for Monday, 13 November 2017 "The Ultimate Antidote" by Renee DeVault - Isaiah 52:1-12
Isaiah 52:1 Awake! Awake, Tziyon!
Clothe yourself with your strength!
Dress in your splendid garments,
Yerushalayim, the holy city!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
will enter you no more.
2 Shake off the dust! Arise!
Be enthroned, Yerushalayim!
Loosen the chains on your neck,
captive daughter of Tziyon!
3 For thus says Adonai:
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without money.”
4 For thus says Adonai Elohim:
“Long ago my people went down to Egypt
to live there as aliens,
and Ashur oppressed them for no reason.
5 So now, what should I do here,” asks Adonai,
“since my people were carried off for nothing?
Their oppressors are howling,” says Adonai,
“and my name is always being insulted, daily.
6 Therefore my people will know my name;
therefore on that day they will know
that I, the one speaking — here I am!”
7 How beautiful on the mountains
are the feet of him who brings good news,
proclaiming shalom, bringing good news
of good things, announcing salvation
and saying to Tziyon, “Your God is King!”
8 Listen! Your watchmen are raising their voices,
shouting for joy together.
For they will see, before their own eyes,
Adonai returning to Tziyon.
9 Break out into joy! Sing together,
you ruins of Yerushalayim!
For Adonai has comforted his people,
he has redeemed Yerushalayim!
10 Adonai has bared his holy arm
in the sight of every nation,
and all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.
11 Leave! Leave! Get out of there!
Don’t touch anything unclean!
Get out from inside it, and be clean,
you who carry Adonai’s temple equipment.
12 You need not leave in haste,
you do not have to flee;
for Adonai will go ahead of you,
and the God of Isra’el will also be behind you.
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One would never keep the discovery of an antidote that could save the life of every person on the planet a secret. The distribution of this antidote would bring widespread hope to the world as well as fame to the one who designed it. In a similar way, those who spread the news of the redemptive plan of God bring Him glory. Isaiah goes as far as to call the feet of such messengers “beautiful.”
For the Israelites, this message was that God had been victorious over Babylon. They could depart from the land and the unclean culture that had slowly been poisoning them and return to relationship with God. It was a temporary taste of what was to come.
Today, we are armed with the ultimate antidote: God’s final design for human restoration. Jesus’ death and resurrection provides a way for the human race, which was doomed to an existence separated from God, to be restored to what it was originally created to be. This message is free and available to anyone who will receive it. ---
Hymn for Today:
"Take My Life, and Let It Be Consecrated" by Francis R. Havergal
1. Take my life and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to thee.
Take my moments and my days;
let them flow in endless praise,
let them flow in endless praise.
2. Take my hands and let them move
at the impulse of thy love.
Take my feet and let them be
swift and beautiful for thee,
swift and beautiful for thee.
3. Take my voice and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips and let them be
filled with messages from thee,
filled with messages from thee.
4. Take my silver and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect and use
every power as thou shalt choose,
every power as thou shalt choose.
5. Take my will and make it thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.
6. Take my love; my Lord, I pour
at thy feet its treasure store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for thee,
ever, only, all for thee. 
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Thought for Today:
Adonai is king, let the earth rejoice,
let the many coasts and islands be glad.(Psalm 97:1)
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Please pray:
For the compassionate ministries among the poor and in diasaster area of Mesoamerica. 
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