God’s love
for His people is so evident in the prophecies of Isaiah. He pleads with the
people to turn their hearts and minds back to the Lord. This prophecy implores
the people to remember their God and return to Him. “I, the Lord, have called
you in righteousness. I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will
make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open
the eyes that are blind, to free the captives from prison and to release from
the dungeon those who sit in darkness.” Isaiah 42:6-7
Isaiah says
it’s time to sing a new song to the Lord. “Sing to the lord a new song, His
praise to the ends of the earth…” Isaiah 42:10 And God promises, “I will lead the blind by ways
they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them. I will turn the
darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the
things I will do; I will not forsake them.” Isaiah 42:16
As he
continues on, Isaiah tells the people they will go through some rough times. “When
you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be
burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord, your God, the
Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Isaiah 43:2-3a His promise is not that they will not have
difficulties, but that He, their Savior, will walk with them each step of the
way. All of Exodus shows us just how closely and intimately God walked with the
Israelites in the past. What we see there is the physical experience of ‘God
with us’. Isaiah prophesied and we now live in a time when God has demonstrated
and promised His presence with us through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
When we
awake each morning, the promise is here for us. God will walk with us. We are
not alone. Whether it is a ‘happy’ day or a day filled with pain and anguish,
God does not abandon us. He constantly reaches out to us with His strength and
comfort, loving us in ways we cannot fathom. But there is something we must do
in order to receive that. We must look to Him and reach out to Him. And because
He is the Great I Am, the Creator and Master of the universe, when we look to
Him, we will sing a new song!
I often join
the birds in the morning and sing worship and praise songs to my Abba Father.
They are usually songs others have written and I have learned from singing them
in church or hearing them on the radio or CD. This morning, God gave me a new
song. It is a song that comes out of the waters and the fires I have been
walking through knowing that my God is with me. He goes before me, He walks
with me and He is my rearguard.
A New Song
to Abba
You are my strength,
You are my song;
I sing a new
song all day long.
When things
come I would not choose;
You are my
song in morning dews.
When I
arise, I look to You,
And praise
Your Name even when I’m blue.
I know Your
hands hold all that comes,
As surely as
the rising sun.
You’ll go
before, prepare the way;
And carry me
through, each thing today.
You fill me
with Your truth and love,
Prepare my
heart from things above.
As day goes
on, things steal my mind;
So much to
be and do I find.
Yet You will
call me to Your knee;
And hold me
fast and comfort me.
When evening
comes, when shadows fall,
I come to
You, on You I call.
I take each
thing that I have done,
And pray it
glorifies Your Son.
You are my strength,
You are my song;
I sing a new
song all day long.
When things
come I would not choose;
You are my
song in morning dews.
