The Tuesday after the Second Sunday after Trinity Sundya
Posted on July 1, 2025 by under
Scripture: Isaiah 25:6-9 (NKJV)
25:6 And in this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of well-refined wines on the lees.
7 And He will destroy on this mountain the surface of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken.
9 And it will be said in that day:
“Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation.”
Devotion
What is “wine on the lees”? During fermentation, yeast devours whatever sugars are in the grape juices, and then dies. Lees are the dead yeast particles left over. When wine is aged “on the lees,” the dead yeast is left to decompose in the wine, a process which puts a little sugar back in, resulting in a sweeter and more flavorful wine. But this requires patience and knowledge. The point is that, just as a skilled wine-maker knows how to make wine enjoyable to the human palate, God—who is the Maker and Redeemer of mankind—knows what is best and what is most enjoyable for human nature. That which is best and most enjoyable for mankind is the true God—to know Him and be saved by Him.
The “veil” that is over all the nations is the ignorance of unbelief. Because of unbelief, men seek happiness in all the wrong things—wealth, power, and bodily pleasures. But God has revealed through the Christ that human happiness is only found in the Triune God. In human history, God became man in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ. He has united the Divine Nature to our human nature, so that we, in Him, might have fellowship with God, in which is true and eternal happiness.
Collect: O Lord, Who never failest to help and govern those whom Thou dost bring up in Thy steadfast fear and love: Make us to have a perpetual fear and love of Thy holy Name; through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever One God, world without end. Amen.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
