Post by Woody Williams on Aug 3, 2006 7:58:58 GMT -5
Text for the Day -- Isaiah 25:6-9
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On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-matured wines,
of rich food filled with marrow, of well-matured wines strained
clear.
And he will destroy on this mountain
the shroud that is cast over all peoples,
the sheet that is spread over all nations;
he will swallow up death for ever.
Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces,
and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the
earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
It will be said on that day,
Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save
us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Devotional
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Isaiah's apocalyptic vision of God's culmination of the world is set
in the context of a great banquet and God overcoming the shadow of
death that hangs over humanity. We wait as well for the revealing of
God's great triumph of the final day, a day of a new creation when
death, grief, sin and brokenness will be gone. There is a beautiful
banquet coming. Wait in expectant hope and faithful service.
Prayer
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We hunger for the great Banquet, Lord. Amen
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On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples
a feast of rich food, a feast of well-matured wines,
of rich food filled with marrow, of well-matured wines strained
clear.
And he will destroy on this mountain
the shroud that is cast over all peoples,
the sheet that is spread over all nations;
he will swallow up death for ever.
Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces,
and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the
earth,
for the Lord has spoken.
It will be said on that day,
Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, so that he might save
us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Devotional
----------
Isaiah's apocalyptic vision of God's culmination of the world is set
in the context of a great banquet and God overcoming the shadow of
death that hangs over humanity. We wait as well for the revealing of
God's great triumph of the final day, a day of a new creation when
death, grief, sin and brokenness will be gone. There is a beautiful
banquet coming. Wait in expectant hope and faithful service.
Prayer
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We hunger for the great Banquet, Lord. Amen