PrayerBits for Thursday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Thursday

Scripture lesson: Isaiah 40:21-31 “Have you not heard?”

Time to reflect: The key concept of this passage is to contrast what we all know, that God is the creator of all, with the fact that we live our lives as if we didn't know this. It gets forgotten in the details, stresses and concerns of daily life. Sometimes we feel we can do things that God is not aware of, other times we feel like God isn't paying attention to our concerns and problems. So this passage is a good reminder of the nature of God.

Moving through the day: Focusing on verses 28 to 31, what difference does this information make in our lives? How can we view life differently if this became a core value and belief of ours? Prayer a prayer of thanksgiving for the reality of these verses.

Scripture:

Do you not know?
       Have you not heard?
       Has it not been told you from the beginning?
       Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
       and its people are like grasshoppers.
       He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,
       and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

He brings princes to naught
       and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

  No sooner are they planted,
       no sooner are they sown,
       no sooner do they take root in the ground,
       than he blows on them and they wither,
       and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

  "To whom will you compare me?
       Or who is my equal?" says the Holy One.

 Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
       Who created all these?
       He who brings out the starry host one by one,
       and calls them each by name.
       Because of his great power and mighty strength,
       not one of them is missing.

  Why do you say, O Jacob,
       and complain, O Israel,
       "My way is hidden from the LORD;
       my cause is disregarded by my God"?

  Do you not know?
       Have you not heard?
       The LORD is the everlasting God,
       the Creator of the ends of the earth.
       He will not grow tired or weary,
       and his understanding no one can fathom.

  He gives strength to the weary
       and increases the power of the weak.

 Even youths grow tired and weary,
       and young men stumble and fall;

  but those who hope in the LORD
       will renew their strength.
       They will soar on wings like eagles;
       they will run and not grow weary,
       they will walk and not be faint.