MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Saturday July 4,
2020
Topic: You Will Return
Text: Isaiah 10:20 – 23
God
keeps to His words. All over the scripture, He fulfilled all His promises
except when we fail to keep our own part of the covenant. He promises are like two
sides of the coin, where He honours one side while the person to receive the
promise honours the other side. When He told the Israelites, 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 in
our text for the day is the assurance that the remnant in exile 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 (Isaiah
10:20). This remnant would be but a fraction of Israel’s former population: see
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 God will rapture to be with Him.
Being a descendant of Abraham, living in the Promised Land, having trusted God
at one time, none of these were good enough.
Beloved,
are you relying on your Christian heritage, the fellowship you attend, the
church you belong, the rituals of worship, or your past experience to qualify
you for belonging to God’s family? These will not count. The key to being a
true Christian is faith in Christ Jesus. Are you truly born again?
Food for Thought: Will you be among those that will return to God when the rapture
takes place?
Memory verse: Isaiah 10:21
Prayer:
Lord God, always keep me ready for the kingdom till the day you will rapture
your saints or till the day of my death
