June 9, 2026, Isaiah 42:10-17
10 Sing to the Lord a new song,
his praise from the end of
the earth,
you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it,
the coastlands and their
inhabitants.
11 Let the desert and its cities lift up their voice,
the villages
that Kedar inhabits;
let the habitants of Sela sing for joy,
let them shout from the
top of the mountains.
12 Let them give glory to the Lord,
and declare his praise
in the coastlands.
13 The Lord goes
out like a mighty man,
like a man of war he
stirs up his zeal;
he cries out, he shouts aloud,
he shows himself mighty
against his foes.
14 For a long time I have
held my peace;
I have kept still and
restrained myself;
now I will cry out like a woman in labor;
I will gasp and pant.
15 I will lay waste mountains and hills,
and dry up all their
vegetation;
I will turn the rivers into islands,
and dry up the pools.
16 And I will lead the blind
in a way that they do not
know,
in paths that they have not known
I will guide them.
I will turn the darkness before them into light,
the rough places into
level ground.
These are the things I do,
and I do not forsake them.
17 They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
“You are our gods.”
Isaiah 42:10–17 reveals that God will eventually
break His long silence to fiercely intervene in history like a warrior,
completely transforming the spiritual landscape to guide His blind and hurting
people while utterly shaming those who trust in false idols.
God promises to
lead the blind by a way they do not know. In what area of your life right now
do you feel completely blind about the future? Can you trust God to navigate
that dark, unfamiliar path for you?
What "rough
place" or overwhelming obstacle in your life do you need to stop trying to
flatten with your own strength, and instead hand over to the Warrior-God who
turns darkness into light?
Robin Adams
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