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Isaiah - Day 80

versebyverse | August 21, 2008 20:43

Scripture: Isaiah 4:6 (NIV): "It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain."

Thought: To me, God's protection of His children in the Day of Wrath is the best "insurance policy" anyone could want!

Question: Do I have the assurance of God's protection?

Indeed the "cloud of smoke by day" and the "glow of flaming fire by night" is for protection! (See yesterday's verse: Isaiah 4:5) What's important, I think, is to see God's loving protection for His remnant of believers--that they will be protected from what the rest of the world will undergo in the "Day": the "heat" of God's Day, and the "storm and rain."

We cannot say with certainty what the "heat", "storm and rain", may fully entail, but the book of Revelation does give us some insight!

It is a real comfort to know that God's children, who are not appointed to wrath will be protected from it. (Romans 5:9: "Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him!"; I Thessalonians 1:10: "...and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead--Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath."; and I Thessalonians 5:9: "For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ."

What a typical display of the very warm love God has for His children!

Prayer: Thank You, Lord, for saving us from the wrath to come! Thank You for Your loving comfort in verses like these. Amen.