the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Isaiah 50:1-11
In vain the LORD’s appeals had rung out. "Hearken unto me" He had ceaselessly repeated (Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 46:3; Isaiah 46:12; Isaiah 48:1; Isaiah 48:12; Isaiah 49:1). Whether it were the voice of John the Baptist (Isaiah 40:3) or that of the Messiah Himself . . . "There was none to answer" (v. 2). How much this indifference — no less a characteristic of mankind today — brought pain to the Lord Jesus! He came with "the tongue of the learned": that of love (John 7:46). But nobody wanted to understand or even to listen. "Thou heardest not . . . from that time thine ear was not opened" (Isaiah 48:8). Yet what an example He gave them: every new morning found this obedient Man giving ear to the words of His Father, attentive to know His will for the day. If He felt this need, how much more should we?
Then indifference towards the Lord Jesus changed to hatred. V. 6 reminds us of the outrages to which He was subjected. But knowing all that lay before Him, He did not turn back; He set His face like a flint (vv. 5, 7; Luke 9:51).
For our part, let us listen attentively to the call of v. 10. We who are children of light should not let ourselves be dazzled by the fleeting sparks whereby the world seeks to light its path (v. 11).
