Saturday after Cantate

Scripture: Isaiah 49:22-26 (NKJV)

22 Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations, and set up My standard for the peoples; They shall bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;

23 Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers; They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord, For they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

24 Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the captives of the righteous be delivered?

25 But thus says the Lord: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.

26 I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.””

Devotion

The Lord gives comfort to His patient remnant throughout the brief ages of this world: “… they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.” Throughout the generations of those who awaiting the coming of the Christ, the Word thus strengthened the saints of God, and for those who now await the return of the Christ in glory, the Word continues to grant such continued consolations: “”… they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me.”

But thus says the Lord: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible be delivered; For I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children. I will feed those who oppress you with their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. All flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

The Lord, Who is our Savior and Redeemer, is the Mighty One of Jacob promised from of old to be our salvation. No deliverance from death and sin could be found in the works of men, but the deliverance which the Christ has accomplished frees all those who believe from captivity to the evil one.

Prayer: O God, Who makes the minds of the faithful to be of one will, grant unto Thy people that they may love what Thou commandest and desire what Thou dost promise that among the manifold changes of this world our hearts may there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Who livest and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end.