Isaiah 59
Dear RTB’ers,
The STS intro provides a really good summary of today’s reading (as it often does), helping us to understand what might have been more confusing without that help.
For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us … we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. (vv. 12a, 11b) If we put ourselves in today’s story, verse 12a quoted above is ours also. Fortunately, however, verse 11b no longer holds for those of us who trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. We have the salvation that the Israelites lacked. What did I quote yesterday? “Humility, contrition, thanksgiving, prayer, praise…” Now we can add salvation to that list!! Glory!
Blessings!
See also: October 3 (2023) / Isaiah 56-59 (again).