Isaiah 50:4-7 Devotional Scripture - Messiah's Love For You

The Lord God has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary.  Isaiah 50:4a

 

I want to know the word.  I want to be able to preach the gospel to my own heart.  I need that word to sustain my own soul when I am weary but I want a word to give to others when they are weary.

He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to hear

as the learned. The Lord God has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.  Isaiah 50:4b-5

 

This is Jesus prophetically speaking of His daily, deep fellowship with God the Father. Jesus could speak with the tongue of the learned because, in daily time with God, He learned to hear as the learned. Jesus delighted to do the will of God, even if it meant going to the cross. He did not turn back but willingly gave Himself over to suffering and shame.  

 

I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.

Isaiah 50:6

 

Jesus was not a pretty picture when He redeemed you from your sin. His face was distorted beyond recognition. You couldn't even recognize that He was a man. And yet He did it. He endured it. He did not turn away. He did it because He loved you.

And who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross.

Hebrews 12:2

 

He endured the cross because His love for you was stronger than anything else. And the joy of being able to wash you and redeem you and to cleanse you from all of your sins was the thing that kept Him going in that moment of disgrace and humiliation.

For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.

 Isaiah 50:7

 

He set His face like a flint to go to Jerusalem.  Jesus had a steadfast determination to obey God and that is what I desire. I want to set my face life flint to obey God’s word and not waver from His truth.