How
do you wake up in the morning? Is to the
sound of an alarm clock ringing, or the sound of music playing, or are you like
a select few and still have the warm voice of a loved one calling you to rise
up out of your slumber? Our Scripture
reading for today is not telling us that the Lord is calling us to get up and
have a nice balanced meal to feed our physical bodies, before we rush out the
door to embrace the events of the day. A
much deeper meaning of the Scripture is realized by reading the verses that
come before and after.
The
proceeding Scriptures clearly point out that God alone could redeem Israel. “Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all
that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Indeed with My rebuke I dry
up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there
is no water, And die of thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness,
And I make sackcloth their covering” (Isaiah 50:2-3). Then He states in
verse 4 that through the personal training of the Messiah, by God through the
Holy Spirit and through human instruction He has been taught to hear God and to
speak what He hears. “I have many things to say and to judge
concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those
things which I heard from Him” (John
8:26). And in John 12:49 we read, “For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me
gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak.” What was the purpose of God awakening the
Messiah’s heart to hear and his tongue to speak? He was awakening the heart of the redeemer.
We continue reading in verse 6 and see that the
Messiah, the REDEEMER suffers the physical abuse that happened on the cross
years later. You see Isaiah is writing prophetically,
what will happen in the future. When
Jesus comes upon the scene, hundreds of years later we hear Him quoting
scriptures that were written prophetically about Himself because His heart had
been awaken.
Today, as never before the body of Christ needs a
fresh awakening. A fresh stirring of the
Holy Spirit in our lives so that we can say, “The Lord God has given Me The
tongue of the learned, That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary. He awakens Me
morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.” Let’s let that be the cry of our heart today.
Prayer—Father I humbly come to You
repenting of a wayward heart, seeking after my own interests instead of Yours. Forgive me Father, cleanse me and make me
new. I am asking You to awaken my heart
morning by morning and awaken my ear to hear as the learned so that I can speak
a word in due season to weary souls, in Jesus Name. Amen.
