Isaiah Chapter 12

I've been reading in Isaiah and have been taking notes while reading for the first time ever.  My hope was that note taking would be beneficial discipline and it has.  Except that I haven't been as disciplined as I should be at reading my Bible.  My goal was a chapter a day but admittedly I have struggled to read lately.

I wanted to write down all my notes, but that was tedious especially when I came to my notes on Chapter 12 and decided that I wanted to write more for that Chapter than the others.

Isaiah Chapter 12

Chapter 11 was a look at positive, prophesied future (Heaven?).  Chapter 12 is a psalm and song of praise.  Chapter 13 prophesies future punishment for Israel's sins.   Interesting sandwiching of ideas.

Outline, more or less.

• Vs 1:  Praise God his forgiveness.  He was angry with me but his anger was turned away.  We will praise God for his comfort.
• Vs 2:  Praise God for his salvation.  We can fully trust in him.  Yahweh is our strength, not me.  I am untrustworthy but the LORD is worthy of trust for he is my salvation.  I was dead in my sins and an object of wrath but Yahweh saved me.
• Vs 3:  I will praise God with JOY.  I have/will drink of living water (John 4).
• Vs 4:  In praise, I will now joyfully evangelize.  Make known among the nations all he has done!
• Give thanks, call upon his name.
• Tell all peoples of God's deeds (forgiveness, comfort, salvation, living water)
• Proclaim that his name is exalted
• Sing Praises! Emotional response (at least for me) for he has done glorious things.

Great is the Holy one of Israel!!

Spiritually dehydrated

I've been "dry" lately.  And I know it's because I'm not disciplined in reading, praying, memorizing, evangelizing, and worshipping through music.

I need to go back and drink deep of the living water.

Lord, I confess my laziness and lack of discipline.  Help me overcome my selfish desires and waste of time.  May I not make excuses for myself but instead spend time in your word and doing your work.

Valentine's Day - I know you

To know someone is to love that person.  One cannot love without fully knowing

Blessed are the poor in spirit

Per Matthew Henry's concise commentary for Matthew 5:3:

The poor in spirit are happy. These bring their minds to their condition, when it is a low condition. They are humble and lowly in their own eyes. They see their want, bewail their guilt, and thirst after a Redeemer.

I am not humble like Jesus.  I struggle to be poor in spirit.  Lord, help me with my failure and thank you for grace to be like you.

Things I dream

I dream to someday...

• Take a part a lawn mower engine and put it back together
• Do most of my car repair myself
• Make my Toyota hit 300,000 miles (only 120,000 more)
• Own a house
• Own a house with a garage
• Memorize the Nicene and Apostle's Creeds

Sunday

We've been sick.  Our Sunday Sabbath Rest time has been the whole weekend.

I took a nap this afternoon.

We visited a new church today.

I am now playing my guitar.

Remarkable content, eh?

That awkward moment when....

...You get in trouble for skipping fun events to have some quiet time and then you get in trouble for skipping the quiet events to have some fun.  It's lose-lose some days.



Really struggling with others' expectations for me - totes obvs by my immature sentences above.