January 28, 2019: Day 58 – Isaiah 54

If you look at vs.10 you will see a verse that should sound familiar.  The mountains may fall and the hills be moved, but the steadfast love of the Lord will not depart from me and his covenant of peace will not be removed.  For the Lord has compassion on us.  Breathe that in.  

This chapter is quite a change from a promise of destruction and wrath from the Lord at the hand of foreign nations which we have seen in other chapters leading up to this.  I like the image in vs.5 where we see that God is our husband, or our wife, and He is the one to whom we owe all of our devotion and our very life.  I guess this is where those who go into the celibate orders are able to say that they are married to God.  But we also see that God considers himself a wife who has been cast off, because we have cast him off quite a few times.