Tag Archives: assurance

Reading:
Isaiah 5:18-30

The following tragic verse fragment provokes the question:

“Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people…” (25).

Isn’t that tragic?

Doesn’t that give you a sense of dismay?

Might it make you wonder what the therefore is there for?

I am so grateful not to serve an irrational, fickle God who gets mad for reasons unknown to me. He has clearly revealed His will. I want to know it!

[The Scriptures say in Isaiah 5:21 -- Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes!]
from Isaiah 5:21

Reading:
Revelation 8:1-5

That’s where I want my prayers to go.

Like this:

“And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand” (4).

I’m thankful God hears my prayers.

Even when they surely aren’t pleasant, at least by my standards.

So let me be more careful in my praying, that I may please God by them.

[The Scriptures say in Revelation 8:3 -- That he should offer it with the prayers of all saints]
from Revelation 8:3