Devotion 810

"Adam Divorced Himself From God.”

Reference: Isaiah Chapter 50

God did not create man to die. He created man in His image to live forever. What kept man and God together is His word. The Word of God is eternal. Eternal life is the Word of God in the man.. When Adam divorced himself from the Word of God, he divorced himself from eternal life.

Isaiah wrote to Israel that they brought to themselves their current condition. They divorced themselves from the Word of God.

Let's read.

Isaiah 50:1 "Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away."

It was the iniquity of Adam that brought man out of line with Life and onto death. The iniquity of Israel placed them at a distance from God. Our iniquity, our unbelief today, places us at a distance from God, just as it was in the Garden of Eden.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 50:2-3 "Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. [3] I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering."

God didn't cause the death of man. Man chose death out of unbelief of the Word of God, which is the Life. God caused the Red Sea to dry up. He made rivers a wilderness. He brought death to all the firstborn in Egypt because of their un belief. Likewise, through faith, He brings life from death. He brings resurrection from death. He showed that in a vision to Ezekiel when dry bones came to life.

Ezekiel 37:7-10 "So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. [8] And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. [9] Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. [10] So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army."

He proved that in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is the resurrection  of every believer. It is the newness of life.

We continue our reading.

Isaiah 50:4-7 "The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. [5] The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. [6] I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. [7] For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed."

On His way to the cross, He set His face like flint. He was on His way to connect divorced man back to God. Giving man the opportunity to reconnect with God through death with Him.

We conclude our reading .

Isaiah 50:8-11 "He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. [9] Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. [10] Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. [11] Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow."

Anyone who will obey the voice of the  Servant, the Lord Jesus Christ, is moved out of the blood of the first Adam into His blood. This is the end of the divorce between man and God. The reunion of heaven and earth, in Christ.

Unite yourself with God. BELIEVE and confess Jesus Christ, the second item, as we revealed Him from the first item. Unbelief caused the divorce. Faith brings a reunion, in Christ!