Our Divine Short ECWA Daily Daily Manna for Saturday

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022

TEXT: Isaiah 51:12-23

12. I-I am the One who comforts you. Who are you that you should fear man who dies, or a son of man who is given up like grass?

13. But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You are in constant dread all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, who has set himself to destroy. But where is the fury of the oppressor?

14. The prisoner is soon to be set free; he will not die [and go] to the Pit, and his food will not be lacking.

15. For I am the LORD your God who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar- His name is Yahweh of Hosts.

16. I have put My words in your mouth, and covered you in the shadow of My hand, in order to plant the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”

17. Wake yourself, wake yourself up! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk the cup of His fury from the hand of the LORD; you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs- the cup that [causes people] to stagger.

18. There is no one to guide her among all the children she has raised; there is no one to take hold of her hand among all the offspring she has brought up.

19. These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you?

20. Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD’s fury, the rebuke of your God.

21. So listen to this, afflicted and drunken one- but not with wine.

22. This is what your Lord says- Yahweh, even your God, who defends His people- “Look, I have removed the cup of staggering from your hand; that goblet, the cup of My fury. You will never drink it again.”

23. I will put it into the hands of your tormenters, who said to you: Lie down, so we can walk over you. You made your back like the ground, and like a street for those who walk on it.

(Holmans CS Version Holy Bible)

TOPIC: MEN ARE GRASS

In February 2021, I lost one of my neighbors. He attended Sunday morning service, after evening service and his evening meal, he took his children to the barber and later died at 12 mid night.

You often hear people ask, “Do you know who I am?” Perhaps they ask such a question because of their achievements, position or wealth. But they forget that men are but grass that you see full of glory in the morning but fade away by evening time.

Most people fear their fellow men, who are but mere grass, more than God who is the creator of the universe. The children of Israel were afraid of the Babylonians because of their cruelty and oppression. They forgot that God’s power is much greater than the Babylonians’.

God wants us to be afraid of His power while also thinking about His love and mercy (vs. 12-17) and His ability to handle any ‘monster’ tormenting His people. God is not a man that is just as grass.

QUESTION: Are you afraid of man who is just like grass instead of the Almighty God?

PRAYER: Lord God, help me not to fear man more than You because man is just like grass that will not last but Your power is everlasting, in Jesus name, Amen.