Light Day 18 – Isaiah 42:10-17
Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
Let them give glory unto the LORD, and declare his praise in the islands.
The LORD shall go forth as a mighty man, he shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, roar; he shall prevail against his enemies.
I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
Listen to these beautiful words of God and ponder what they mean for your life:
He brings the blind in a way they do not know.
He leads them in paths they have not known.
He makes darkness light before them.
He makes crooked things straight.
He does not forsake them.
Spiritually, we are born blind. Our flesh cannot see or comprehend the mysteries and the reality of the kingdom of God. Even once we have been born from above into the kingdom of God, it is often quite difficult for us to truly grasp and believe the reality of His kingdom.