Isaiah 51:1-8

The passage we look at now brings both comfort and encouragement from the LORD. It was written to the remnant in Babylonian captivity. Yet it applies to the remnant in all generations. It applies most certainly to the remnant today.Three times the remnant is told to, "Listen to Me". How important that we, as the remnant of Jesus, listen to His word with a determined intent to obey. Listening to God's word is a discipline. Stay in the word always. Stay under the Holy Spirit inspired teaching of God's word. Stay in true Christian fellowship that is built on Jesus Christ and His word.We are living in the darkest, most evil and discouraging time of human history. Yet we have been washed in the blood of the Lamb. We are children of the Most High God. We are on a journey to the celestial city whose builder and maker is God. We are about to enter into eternal joy, peace and righteousness. We are about to enter an eternity without pain, sorrow or death. In eternity the knowledge of the glory of God will cover the earth. The glory of God will be everywhere. It will be beyond our imagination.Look to God's word and remember all that God has done. Remember who god is. Look to the cross and remember the price paid for our salvation. Look to the empty tomb and remember that sin and death have been defeated once and for all. Look up, for our salvation draws near.Maranatha

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1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.

2 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.

3 For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

4 Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

5 My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

7 Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.

8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.