God Knows Who I Am

Isaiah 41:14 “Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.”

God knows what we are. I think this is amazing. Chapter 40 is all about how great our God is all that he made and has done. And then here in this passage he tells Israel he knows their state. In the next verse God says I will make you into something.

I am so happy that God knows my state. And as with Israel here He was willing to give His life for me and make me into the man He wants me to be. Romans 5 teaches this very clearly

We serve a wonderful creator who knows that we are nothing without Him. If God doesn’t make us into someone we are nothing. 

What is Your Joy in?

Romans 5;10-11 “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”

Do you have joy or do you find yourself often discouraged when things don’t go your way? When your car breaks down? A job opportunity turns out to be nothing?

According to these verses our joy ought to be God through Christ, “..but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ,”. How much this would cause us to joy in God and not the temporal things that are around us.

All that we have or see will pass away. The joy we get from the earthly things will never last. Our cars will die and end up in a junk yard. Our houses will decay and one day be pulled down and another one built over them. Everything we do or build in this life that brings us joy only lasts for a short amount of time.

But here in this verse we are given eternal joy by Jesus Christ, a joy in God the Father who is and was and is to come. Do you know how great this source of Joy is? God will never die, Hebrews 13:5 that he will never leave us nor forsake us, Revelation 1:11, he is the first and last, eternal.

We who were his enemies are reconciled to God by the blood of the Lamb. Christ has redeemed us to the God of heaven. We are made friends (john 15:15), sons (1 John 3:1), justified (Romans 5:9), at peace with God (Romans 5:1). What more do you need to bring you joy? Everything you could possibly need is found in Christ.

Our problem with Joy is that we don’t think right. If we thought on these truths the true undying joy it would bring us.

Will your joy today be placed in the temporal or the eternal? What will you think on today?