I know it is a little unusual to sit down with You for this purpose twice in one day, Father, but my week has been a little out of sorts. So here I am again – and it surely won’t hurt me. Thank You for being with me and teaching me once again.

Matthew 12:15-21 (<<click the green)

Lord, I love the fact that there are so many Old Testament prophecies that You fulfilled at Your coming! And many of them are so precise that there would be no way that some charlatan could just study up on several of them and try to “act them out” so as to convince anybody! You are the real deal! And that gives us such hope for the future as well – for there are many prophecies yet to come to fruition and they most assuredly will! Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!

Matthew here pulls from Isaiah 42:1-4. Reading it slowly, one can see the many points of fulfillment who You are, Lord.

“Look at my Servant, whom I have chosen.
He is my Beloved, who pleases me.
I will put my Spirit upon him,
and he will proclaim justice to the nations.
 He will not fight or shout
or raise his voice in public.
 He will not crush the weakest reed
or put out a flickering candle.
Finally he will cause justice to be victorious.
 And his name will be the hope
of all the world.”

The ones that speak to me this morning speak of Your humble nature – the Creator of all the universe – all powerful in His very nature – chose not to fight or shout or raise his voice in public. Faster than we could even say nanosecond, You could have thought everything into a non-existent state. But Your heart was a heart of love. And Your mission was to save, not destroy.

I also take great comfort in knowing that You will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle. I cannot begin to count the number of times that in my weakness I felt like my light was flickering – ready to go out with the slightest breeze. But You chose to stand by me, to sustain me, to encourage me! Thank You, Lord, for all You do for me!

And finally, though the world rebuffs the thought of You being anything of noteworthy nature, You are our only true source of justice and hope. I cling to that! Nothing in this world is 100% trustworthy. Humanity fails humanity time and time again. But You? You never fail! Praise Your most Holy Name!

Apr 11th, 2018, Wed, 7:57 pm