Pay close attention, you peoples!
Let the earth hear, and everything in it;
the world, with all it produces.
2 For Adonai is angry at every nation,
furious with all their armies;
he has completely destroyed them,
handed them over to slaughter.
3 Their slain will be thrown out,
the stench will rise from their corpses,
the mountains will flow with their blood.
4 The whole host of heaven will decompose,
the heavens themselves be rolled up like a scroll;
all their array will wither away
like a withering grape-leaf that falls from a vine
or a withered fig from a fig tree.
5 “For my sword has drunk its fill in heaven;
now it descends on Edom to judge them,
the people I have doomed to destruction.”
6 There is a sword that belongs to Adonai.
It is filled with blood, gorged with fat,
filled with the blood of lambs and goats,
gorged with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For Adonai has a sacrifice in Botzrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
7 The wild oxen will fall with them,
the young bulls with the strong, mature ones.
Their land will be drunk with blood
and their dust made greasy with fat.
8 For Adonai has a day of vengeance,
a year of requital for fighting with Tziyon.
"God Will Fight For His Own" by Author: Jeremiah BolichPassages like Isaiah 34:1-8 serve as a sharp reminder of God’s zealous love for His people. As Christians, we know this like none other. As graphic as Isaiah 34 is to the modern-day child of God, it pales in light of what God did in sending His own Son to die on a cross. In Christ’s death on the cross, the world sees most clearly God’s zealous love for His own.
Yet this love is not limited to the catastrophic and extreme circumstances of this life. God’s protective care reaches to the smallest details of our everyday needs. Jesus taught that God’s care for the sparrow should remind us of how specific God’s concern is for those who belong to Him. He loves us, planned for us, and has a future that has included us. The good news that Jesus brings to our world is nothing less than an invitation in becoming one of His own.
Remember, no matter what you are going through, God wants to fight for you.
Hymn for Today: "Such Love, Pure As the Whitest Snow" by Graham Kendrick
1. Such love, pure as the whitest snow
Such love, weeps for the shame I know
Such love, paying the debt I owe
O Jesus, such love
2. Such love, stilling my restlessness
Such love, filling my emptiness
Such love, showing me holiness
O Jesus, such love
3. Such love, springs from eternity
Such love, streaming through history
Such love, fountain of life to me
O Jesus, such love
Thought for Today:
"For Adonai has a day of vengeance,
a year of requital for fighting with Tziyon." Isaiah 34:8
Please pray:
The lonely people spending the Christmas season without family nd friends.
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Please pray:
The lonely people spending the Christmas season without family nd friends.
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