Reading
SAA Notes
Verses 9 and 10 contain a most strengthening message for days of sorrow or hardship – “I have chosen you and not cast you off; fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed for I am your God!”
SJA Notes
* God of love and faithfulness, thank You for Your word today.
“But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the offspring of Abraham, my friend; you whom I took from the ends of the earth, and called from its farthest corners, …”
What a passage of hope this is today!
God speaks to us as He did to His people back in Isaiah’s time, and throughout the ages since then.
God’s choosing and taking and calling was true for God’s people who were in exile in and around the time Isaiah was prophesying.
Back a little, and these words were true when God’s people were rescued out of Egypt and called onwards to the Promised Land.
And these words were true back further in God’s calling of Abraham!
The good news is that for us, today, thousands of years later, God’s choosing and taking and calling is true now as it was then.
God takes us from all points of the earth, He calls us from the very corners of the world!
Our God calls us. Let us answer.
* Mighty God,
Thank You for Your salvation to us.
Please call those around us to You. May they answer Your call.
Amen.