December 7, 2022

Isaiah 40:25-31

Make sure you read the scripture passage for today. It has many beautiful lines that can become our mantra as we go about this beautiful day. Towards the end of the passage we read “those that put their hope in the Lord They run and do not grow weary,

walk and never tire.” I want that to be my mantra as we approach Christmas.

At the heart of this reading though we find an Israelite community that feels as if God has forgotten them. They have this feeling that He does not know their name. “How can you say, Jacob, how can you insist, Israel,

‘My destiny is hidden from the Lord,

my rights are ignored by my God’?” I don’t think it has ever come to that for me but I know it has for many. God is saying in a very emphatic way “You are constantly on my mind, please know that.” Maybe the simple message of today is “God knows, He knows.”