Friday - Isaiah 50 - The Power to Deliver

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HE iniquities of Israel were so bad & their insults against God were so deep that He divorced Himself from His own people (vs. 1). Or from another angle, Israel sold themselves into slavery. Yet, God was well able to unravel the damage which had been done in the relationship. It is a great affront against God for anyone to act as if His power is insufficient for Him to bring His own people back to Himself (vs. 2). However, the very thing that brought judgments on Israel (initially) also stood between them & their Redeemer when He was ready to redeem them. But the lack was not in God. The lack was in the faith of His people. God's strength is infinite, limited only by the fallen freewill of men.

Hallelujah for Isaiah 50:4 though! Isaiah reports, "The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary..." Indeed, Isaiah was more than willing to be a mouthpiece for God to use too. But, wait. When the Messiah did come, He fit some of these statements even better (vs. 6-7). Christ was the One with the power to deliver. He has indeed spoken a word in season to the weary.  He who was the Word, and who was in the beginning with God (because, after all, He was, is and has always been God), has all power (John 1:1-5 & Matthew 28:18-20). He has the power to save even the worst of sinners; the darkest of hearts; the most hopeless of human lice (Hebrews 7:25).