YOU WILL RETURN: Devotion for Wednesday June 22, 2016
Text: Isaiah 10:20 – 23 Memory verse: v 21
God
keeps to His words. He fulfilled all His promises except when we fail to keep
our own part of the covenant. When He told the Israelis, at the bank of Red Sea
that the Egyptians they are seeing they will see no more. It was as if it is
something very impossible to happen. But God was true to His word.
Here is the
assurance that the remnant will return to their Promised Land. Those who
remained faithful to God despite the horrors of the invasion are called the
remnant. Once Assyria’s army was destroyed, a small group of God’s people would
stop relying on Assyria and start trusting God (10:20). This remnant would be
but a fraction of Israel’s former population (Ezra 2:64-65). Have your life
been battered by evil, sickness, sin, etc? God is promising you that you will
return to the position of good health, prosperity, progress, knowledge of God,
etc.
In
spiritual terms, the key to being a part of the remnant was faith in Christ
Jesus. These remnants are those that will be raptured to be with the Lord.
Being a descendant of Abraham, living in the Promised Land, having trusted God
at one time, none of these were good enough. Are you relying on your Christian
heritage, the rituals of worship, or past experience to qualify you for
belonging to God’s family? The key to being a true Christian is faith in God.
Food for Thought: Will you be among those that will return to God when the
rapture takes place?
Prayer: Lord God, keep me rapturable till the day of rapture or my death
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