I WILL TRUST MY LORD! ” A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. —Isaiah 40:6-8 All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.  To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? —Isaiah 40:17-18  Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created…

REMEMBER YOUR FIRST ALLIANCE! But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. —Philippians 3:20-21             Keep in mind whose “country” we belong to!  Fellow follower of Jesus, we are citizens of heaven first along with all those who have called on the Name of our Lord for salvation.  Let us keep our focus the King and His “country” and not be distracted from the ambassadorship that we have been given— “We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as…

SELF FOCUSED OR CHRIST AND OTHERS FOCUSED Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. —Philippians 2:3-4 For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. —Philippians 2:13 For everyone looks out for their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. —Philippians 2:21                Whose interests do you really have in mind— yours, others, the Lord Jesus’?  The interests of our Lord Jesus Christ should be our interests as well.  Then, when His interests are our…

EVIDENCE REVEALS THE FOOL AND THE FAITHFUL The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink. —Isaiah 32:5-6 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. —Philippians 1:21  Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit,…

MY HEART’S FOCUS And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men. —Isaiah 29:13 “Ah, stubborn children,” declares the LORD, “who carry out a plan, but not mine.” —Isaiah 30:1 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart. —Ephesians 6:5-6             Are you and I “doing the will of God from the heart?” …

HE SEES AND KNOWS EVERYTHING! Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans form the Lord, who do their work in darkness and think, “Who sees us?  Who will know?”  You turn things upside down, as if the potter where thought to be like the clay!  Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me?”  Can the pot say of the potter, “He knows nothing?” —Isaiah 29:15-16             There are people who think they are hiding what they are doing, but our Lord knows.  These people do their work “in darkness and think, “Who sees us?  Who will know?”  How…

KEEP YOUR FOCUS! The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants suffer for their guilt; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are scorched, and few men are left. —Isaiah 24:5-6 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken. It will be said on that day, “Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is…

YOUR VALUE AND SIGNIFICANCE Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. —Ephesians 3:20-21             Do you feel small at times and insignificant?  That is the natural mind thinking!  If indeed you have called on Jesus to save you, then you are a child of God, belonging to the family of God.  Apart from Him we are small and insignificant.  Those who do not know Him surely puff themselves up to impress themselves or others…

GOD’S GREAT LOVE, MERCY AND GRACE! But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.  —Ephesians 2:4-5 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. —Ephesians 2:10             God is “rich in mercy.”  He does not condemn anyone who “calls on the Name of the Lord.  Instead, He saves them from their sin.  That is mercy.  Instead of condemning us to Hell forever, He saves us to a relationship with…

GOD’S HOLY SPIRIT GUARANTEES OUR INHERITANCE! In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory. —Ephesians 1:13-14             These two verses are so rich with what happens to those who call on the Name of the Lord for salvation from sin to a relationship with God through Him.             First, we “heard the word of truth.”  Many people “hear” but don’t really “hear.”  They hear with their physical ears but what they hear does not…