People of God, you are each, every first and last one, special
to Him who created you, who has redeemed and raised you through His crucified
and risen Son, and who restores you daily through His Presence, and who
protects You perfectly by His Spirit.
God’s Presence is for
His people.
In Isaiah 52, Yahweh is sanctifying His chosen nation, Israel. Nothing Israel could do could ultimately
separate it from their Lord. Each of us, since Jesus, can be likened to
His nation, just like each of us is integrally part of His Israel, the Church.
Yahweh is rich in His Covenant Presence, assuring His people
that they are His, and He is theirs, unequivocally. As such, this section is an oracle for what
is invisibly seen in this living age, for those of us who search spiritually, as
much as it’s an oracle for what is coming — when we’re all resurrected from
this corrupt world.
The Freedom in THIS Redemption
God’s redemption costs us nothing. It is free in Christ. What is priceless in value could never be
bought. Such is the love of the Lord that He would never accept payment
for what is undeniably and unfathomably ours.
Freedom From What Was, To Step Into What Is
We, the people of God, are granted to arise and shake off what
we’ve worn; the dust of our pasts that have held us back whilst we were captive
to the enemy. Now that we look to God for
visions and revelations for how to live our lives, He redeems us constantly in
our moments. And if any despise us, they
despise Him, and oh what a foolish thing that is to do! We’re warned here, too, that it’s contemptible
to look to ‘Egypt’ for help. We must
stay out of the world as far as we possibly can, bearing within our
consciousness, daily, the contempt we have for the Lord when we go the world’s way, which is more an
ever-present danger now than ever.
Bringers of Good News!
Oh the honour to make public the glory of the Lord!
Freed, we go out, in the joy of God’s Presence, transformed from
within, new vessels, acquitted by grace in such a way as to have cognisance for
what was, but to know it as no impediment, but as a glory unto Him for what He
alone has done; in accord for stepping into what is, we go!
God, Our Every Protection
We go in the knowledge inwardly known, in our soulish core, that
we are His. And with that knowledge retrofitted
exactly as if custom made to our identities, we go, knowing He is before us,
and our rear guard.
The enemy casts all sorts of aspersions toward us; that God can
abandon His children. But God never can,
because God cannot sin against His own covenant.
© 2016 Steve Wickham.
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