Devotion 777

"Because You Have Forgotten The God Of Your Salvation"

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 17

In that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the only Savior, the Holy One. When the wrath of God is revealed, destroying every nation, and gathering His remnant unto Himself.

Damascus will be a heap of ruins.

Isaiah writes:

Let's read:

Isaiah 17:1-3 "The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. [2] The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. [3] The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts."

God is always separating. He destroys the unbelieving nations but keeps His remnant, those who have trusted in Him and His blood sacrifice.

We continue our reading:

Isaiah 17:4-8 "And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean. [5] And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim. [6] Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. [7] At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. [8] And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images."

Men will have no confidence in their idols. They will see the true Living God for Who He actually is. We can come to God willingly, we taste  the joy of His salvation. He will bring us to our knees to avoid us destroying ourselves. God has made it possible for no man to die lost. That is why God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, and today he's in His men and women reconciling the world to Himself. God doesn't want anyone to go to hell. If salvation is rejected, judgment is the next step.

We continue our reading:

Isaiah 17:9-13 "In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation. [10] Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: [11] In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. [12] Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! [13] The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind."

He created all things. He can rebuke the seas and the mountains. He speaks to the wind, and they obey Him. He did that then, and He does it today. He can speak to your mountain, and that mountain has to move. He sent His word and healed them all. He can speak to your disease, and that disease has to flee. He's the same God yesterday, today, and forever. He gathers his remnant and destroys all nations.

We conclude our reading:

Isaiah 17:14 "And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us."

Let the God of salvation be your lot. BELIEVE and confess Christ, the second Adam, as we revealed him from the first Adam. He separates His remnant from the rest of the world, in Christ!