A FRUITY FILLING
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Opening Prayer
Holy Spirit, open my heart to receive truth from Scripture today, especially if there are things that are keeping me from experiencing all that God has to offer me.
Read ISAIAH 27
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Isaiah
Isaiah 27
Deliverance of Israel
1 In that day,
2 In that day—
3 I, the LORD, watch over it;
I water it continually.
I guard it day and night
so that no one may harm it.
4 I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
I would march against them in battle;
I would set them all on fire.
5 Or else let them come to me for refuge;
let them make peace with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6 In days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill all the world with fruit.
7 Has the LORD struck her
as he struck down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8 By warfare and exile you contend with her—
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind blows.
9 By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles or incense altars
will be left standing.
10 The fortified city stands desolate,
an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,
there they lie down;
they strip its branches bare.
11 When its twigs are dry, they are broken off
and women come and make fires with them.
For this is a people without understanding;
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator shows them no favor.
12 In that day the LORD will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. 13 And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Reflect
Part of the fruit of God’s Spirit is peace. Allow his peace to settle over you as you come to focus your attention on him today.In this passage, we catch glimpses of what the world will be like ‘in that day’ (v. 1), when all is restored as God intended. From this, we can learn what God’s desire for his people is. Two things in particular stand out: all idols will be destroyed, and God’s people will be fruitful.
Fruitfulness in the Bible often refers to filling the earth with God’s people. However, in the New Testament, we also learn about the characteristics those people will display as they are filled with God’s Spirit. The ‘fruit’ they will bear is detailed in Galatians 5:22, 23 as ‘love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.’ So God desires that we destroy anything that gets in the way of our worship of him and increasingly display these characteristics.
We don’t have to do this in our own strength, though—in fact, we can’t! Jesus says he is the vine in this vineyard Isaiah speaks of (John 15:5). Our task is to stay close to him, and he will give us all we need to grow in fruitfulness.
Apply
Is there something that is pulling you away from worshipping God wholeheartedly? Or is there an area where your fruit is not growing as it should?
Closing prayer
Father in Heaven, you deserve everything I am and have, and I worship you. Please help me to draw on your goodness and power to serve you, to show others who you are.
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