GOD SAID IT, AND I BELIEVE IT!

(A series in the book of Isaiah: Chapter 25)

Sometimes when I read the Bible, I have the feeling that these promises are just too good to be true. Many times, I have felt that the promise is just too big for me to receive it. I feel like so small for God to notice. However, as I continue to read the words of God in the lenses of God’s love for His children. These promises started to root in my heart. The promises are not anymore too good to be true. The promises become the strongest lines I can hold on to in my knowledge of who God is.

I have looked at the prophecy as a proclamation of not just judgment to the sinners but also love notes of God’s assurance to His dear children. I do not need any more shreds of evidence that God will fulfill His words. I do not need God to prove to me that He loves me. He loves me and He will fulfill all He said in the Bible.

Let us try to see Isaiah chapter 25. We see here a people needed not any proving because they have seen and witnessed God’s victories fought for them. The people of God in this chapter have witnessed the greatest promises fulfilled right before their eyes. It is just a short gratitude-filled chapter. Let us reflect below on the testimonies proclaimed as prophesied by Prophet Isaiah when the people of the Lord will completely be delivered from physical and spiritual oppression.

(The end of Tyranny)

Lord, you are my God;

I will exalt you and praise your name,

for in perfect faithfulness

you have done wonderful things,

things planned long ago.

2 You have made the city a heap of rubble,

the fortified town a ruin,

the foreigners’ stronghold a city no more;

it will never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore strong peoples will honor you;

cities of ruthless nations will revere you.

4 You have been a refuge for the poor,

a refuge for the needy in their distress,

a shelter from the storm

and a shade from the heat.

For the breath of the ruthless

is like a storm driving against a wall

5 and like the heat of the desert.

You silence the uproar of foreigners;

as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud,

so the song of the ruthless is stilled.

(The end of darkness and death)

6 On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare

a feast of rich food for all peoples,

a banquet of aged wine—

the best of meats and the finest of wines.

7 On this mountain he will destroy

the shroud that enfolds all peoples,

the sheet that covers all nations;

8 he will swallow up death forever.

The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears

from all faces;

he will remove his people’s disgrace

from all the earth.

The Lord has spoken.

(The end of Pride)

9 In that day they will say,

“Surely this is our God;

we trusted in him, and he saved us.

This is the Lord, we trusted in him;

let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.”

10 The hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain;

but Moab will be trampled in their land

as straw is trampled down in the manure.

11 They will stretch out their hands in it,

as swimmers stretch out their hands to swim.

God will bring down their pride

despite the cleverness of their hands.

12 He will bring down your high fortified walls

and lay them low;

he will bring them down to the ground,

to the very dust.

Friends, we may not be are oppressed physically, the oppression can be emotional or spiritual for us. And maybe what is really oppressing us is not the other person in the house, in the workplace, or in the church but our own weaknesses. Whatever it is that is oppressing you right now, God has already proclaimed your victory through Him. God promised as you stick with HIM you will always come out victorious. When you struggle with your weaknesses right now, it doesn’t mean that the promises of God are not for you anymore. The fact that you are struggling it means the Holy Spirit is helping you distinguish right from wrong. God promised to be our strength in our weaknesses. He said it, and I believe it! Do you?