Wednesday Devo

December 21st, 2022

Scripture Reading:

6 For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God...

Commentary from the ESV Study Bible:

9:6 to us. A gift of divine grace to sinners. a child … a son. This is the invincible figure striding across the world stage, taking gracious command, according to vv. 4–5 (cf. Ps. 2:7–9; Luke 1:32). Isaiah presents the events as if it were the time of the child’s arrival, with an expectation of what he will achieve (Isa. 9:7). Wonderful Counselor. A “counselor” is one who is able to make wise plans (cf. 11:2). He is a ruler whose wisdom is beyond merely human capabilities, unlike intelligent but foolish Ahaz (cf. 28:29). Mighty God. A title of the Lord himself (10:20–21; Deut. 10:17; Neh. 9:32; Jer. 32:18).

Study Questions:

Next, he's the Advent of REVELATION. This child will be called "Mighty God." This is the title of the Lord God himself! Jesus IS the one that prophesied about in the Old Testament. The fact is, we've all been wrong about God before. You thought you were right ABOUT God, you thought you were right WITH God, and then you met Jesus and learned that you were wrong all along. Jesus is the way to be right with God. Now we CAN be right about God and right with God. We don't have to guess what God is like because we need just look at Jesus. So, to know God, we don't look inside ourselves or at what everyone else thinks, we look at Jesus. What does it mean to you that you serve a God that not only wants to know you, but wants you to know HIM?
Your relationship with God is just like any other relationship in your life in a lot of ways. For example, if you are married or dating someone, that relationship takes work. It takes invested time and attention, frequent conversations. You are never going to have a healthy relationship with someone on accident. The same is true of your relationship with your Creator. Unless you are actively trying to grow it, it's shrinking. How much time and effort do you put into knowing God better?

Pray:

That you would find comfort in the fact that God KNOWS you and wants you to know him.
That you would do whatever is necessary to grow your intimacy with God.

This Week's City 7:

Try to commit to memory!

6. Is the Bible God’s Word? Jesus proved He is God by rising from the dead and said the Old Testament was God’s Word and gave authority to the Apostles to write the words of the New Testament, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, so that all the words of the Bible are God’s Word.
(Matthew 5:18; Luke 24:27, 44; John 14:25-26, 15:27, 16:12-13, 17:20; Acts 2:42; Ephesians 3:5; 2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:16-21)

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