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We are blessed at Trinity Church of the Nazarene to have many gifted writers who share their gifts with us throughout the Advent season with daily devotionals. We invite you to reflect on these insightful readings and prepare your heart for celebrating this special season.

Isaiah 4:2-6

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Isaiah 4:2-6

2 In that day the Branch of the Lord will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of the survivors in Israel. 3 Those who are left in Zion, who remain in Jerusalem, will be called holy, all who are recorded among the living in Jerusalem. 4 The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit[a] of judgment and a spirit[b] of fire. 5 Then the Lord will create over all of Mount Zion and over those who assemble there a cloud of smoke by day and a glow of flaming fire by night; over everything the glory[c] will be a canopy. 6 It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain.

DEVOTIONAL

Jesus was born about seven hundred years after Isaiah describes the kind of future that God’s people were going to have. There is so much encouragement in realizing that there is hope for salvation. God’s plan for us includes salvation, even after judgement. Jesus Christ was that branch that allowed us to become His holy remnant.

 

Matthew 5:3 says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Let us protect the purity of our transformed and sanctified lives. Even after it seemed like the lineage was dead, the “branch” (Jesus) is symbolic of new life. God is ever present, and His protection will always be over His people. Jesus Christ is a living testament of that renewal for mankind.

 

Yes, there will be judgement but, that is not the final word. If we remain faithful to the end, there is hope. Revelation 2:10 b “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of Life” (NKJV). Our sins will be purged away; we will be called “Holy”!

 

Our omnipresent God is always with us. Our omnipotent God always protects us. Like He did with ‘a cloud by day and a fire by night’, He promised to always be our ‘shelter’ in the ‘storm’.

 

Let us get ready for a glorious, new life where we can glory in our Redeemer, our Messiah!

 

Author: Cenida Suyén

 

Other Scriptures for today:

  • Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19
  • Acts 1:12-17, 21-26.

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