Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"In all their affliction He was afflicted"
Text: Isaiah 63:9
RECOGNITION OF RELATIONSHIP
The LORD graciously acknowledged the special relationship with His people. The degree of identification is remarkable and moving.
“For He said, ‘Surely they are My people,
Children who will not lie.’
So He became their Saviour.
In all their affliction He was afflicted,
And the Angel of His Presence saved them;
In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
And He bore them and carried them
All the days of old.”
Isaiah 63:8-9
1. The LORD’s role.
a) He was their God and Saviour.
b) He was the divine Redeemer.
2. Those who trusted in Him.
a) They are His people.
b) They are His children.
3. The deep sense of identification.
a) In their affliction, He felt for them.
b) His Presence was with them.
i) It was compared to an angelic presence.
ii) The Redeemer was sent as “The Angel of His presence”.
4. The work of redemption.
a) It was done out of love.
b) It was also divine pity (compassion).
c) The Redeemer bore and carried them when they were weak.
d) This was always God’s practice from days of old.
5. Recalling what Moses wrote.
“And in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD
your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all
the way that you went until you came to this place.”
Deuteronomy 1:31