Daily Thoughts From God's Word

I think I’ll go back and, one by one, take a look at Isaiah’s Servant Songs, which, almost eight hundred years before Christ, pictured...

The second of the four servant songs of Isaiah: 49:1-6. The others: 42:1-4, 50:4-9, and 52:13-53:12. Here, in chapter 42, the servant...

What familiar words as Isaiah turns to encouraging God’s people and ever more clearly pointing to the coming Messiah: “’Comfort, comfort...

“In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them”...

Previous chapters have singled out individual nations by name as Isaiah has pronounced God’s judgment upon them. In chapter 34, the...

“Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round” (29:1). Isaiah prophesies concerning...

Isaiah has been addressing the nations but, of course, Judah and Jerusalem are never far from his mind. And so, he now turns to them, and...

I sometimes go back and look at my thoughts from previous years, which tend to be so similar to my current thoughts. But, then, that...

“Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round” (29:1). Isaiah prophesies concerning...

Messiah! These chapters are full of Messianic prophecies: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name...

“In the year that King Uzziah died . . .” (6:1). This is the “Here am I, send me” chapter of Isaiah. Of course, that offer is predicated...

The opening chapters of Isaiah are filled with words of judgment against the people. The section concludes with Isaiah’s vineyard...

Isaiah prophesied in the eighth century B.C., almost 800 years before the birth of Jesus. The situation he faced is spelled out clearly...

The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. It is a dialogue of love between Solomon and the woman he loves. But, as many have noted, it also...

“Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity” (1:2). As I read these opening words, I think of 1 John 2:17 –...