“The Lord called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name.” “The one who formed me in my mother’s womb to be his servant, who commissioned me to bring Israel back to him.” “You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.” – Isaiah 49:1, 5-6
Almighty God, Creator of all things, has laid out who the future redeemer of the world will be, although not by name. It seems interesting to me that the redeemer himself says the Lord (God) called him before he was born, yet we know the Redeemer is Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God. So the birth mentioned obviously must be his earthly, Holy Spirit inspired birth to Mary, because Christ is part of the Trinity, which exists the same way Almighty God and the Holy Spirit do. In other words, he wasn’t born any other time in history. So while the Bible says God simply “IS”, it certainly stands to reason that they “ARE” just the same.
God had constructed a plan from the beginning of time to restore the Jews in spite of their rebellious ways, plus include the rest of the world in his plan as well. Remember, Gentiles are not just a small group from a particular region. The world at that time, as well as today, has two groups in God’s eyes: The Jews & the Gentiles or non-Jews. This is borne out in the statement “you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.”
The Lord God does as he pleases for his own reasons; reasons we are not privy to. We don’t need to know in advance what God is doing. It’s not as if we can find out on our own and he’s certainly not sharing that information. Knowing only complicates things for us and raises a plethora of often times unanswerable questions. It’s much better to trust that God has our best interests at heart. Some can’t deal with not knowing what the future holds. Frankly, that type of information is irrelevant, because whether we know or don’t know the future is already set and will play out exactly the way the Lord has prescribed it. Next time we will continue looking at Chapter 49. Until then, walk with the King and be a blessing.
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