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It’s week 2 in our 6-week challenge to memorize Isaiah 12.
MEMORIZE
Here’s the verse we’re learning this week:
“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”
Isaiah 12:2
THINK ABOUT
Are you ever afraid? Less confident than you’d like to be?
We all are at times.
But as we work on putting the words from Isaiah 12:2 in our hearts this week, let’s truly “behold”—see!—that our strength and our song don’t originate with us; they come from God.
Because He is strong, we are secure.
Please leave a comment here or in our Facebook group for more conversation throughout the week. We’ll be sharing how God is moving through these verses in each of us.
I love it that I am secure because of HIS strength and not my own! Thank you, Lisa, for the way you have brought that out because it will stick with me. Love you!
This truth is one I want to stick with me, too, Dianna. I should know better by now than to depend on my own strength; I fail myself all the time. But God is always faithful, strong, and loving!
This verse may end up being my favorite of the chapter, but I suppose it’s too early to say. :) Love you, too.
Lisa, I am so blessed that the Lord led me back to your encouraging blog site. I am memorizing Isaiah 12 along with you, and today, I encouraged my prayer chain partners to do the same.
Memorizing His Word, hiding it in our hearts, gives us such joy during such dark world days.
This is awesome, Maureen. I’m so grateful that you let us know how the Lord is working in you and through you with others. Thanks for joining us to memorize this chapter–yes, through these words, the Lord shines a bright light wherever we go.
Afraid? Yes, absolutely. The other day I had what seemed to be a foreshadowing of what my last day will be like. I’d rather pass on that. It wasn’t nice.
I’m afraid of how much pain there is to come, and of being overcome by it. This is not a gentle drifting off. It’s going to hurt.
I don’t believe the fear can be replaced, either by courage or by faith. Those orders were too tall for Jesus. They;re certainly too much for me.
All I hope to do is to keep functioning with the fear acknowledged, and while not accepted in the passive sense of the word, at least recognized. It’s neither a friend, not a path or surrender.
Fear is pain and pain hurts.
But every positive thing done in the face of fear is a small victory, and those count more to God, I think, than we can possibly imagine.
I hope this was coherent; I am not in good shape as I write this, but I wanted to give the flavour of where hope and optimism really live…neither in denial nor defiance, but in just taking that next step, no matter how scared I am.
“Fear is pain and pain hurts.”
True, Andrew. And I’ll add—we all want to avoid pain when possible. I’m sorry you’re in so much and foresee more to come. :( I ask God to lessen the pain.
I thank God that through it all you’ve maintained your faith in Him. That may not alleviate the physical pain, but I hope it somewhat softens some of the mental suffering that could be worse without Him. Knowing that relief IS coming has to be better than thinking it will always get worse and worse.
You are showing both courage and faith. Praying for you as you get through one day at a time….