Tuesday after the Second Sunday after Trinity Sunday
Posted on June 28, 2022 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
On a mountain sat a fortified city. This city was a strength to the poor and needy. It gave refuge from storms. It provided shade from the heat of the day. But this city became a ruin. Foreigners razed it to the ground. This city was Jerusalem. It was destroyed because of the unbelief of the Jews. Isaiah prophesied that the Lord will rebuild this city. This city would eventually be rebuilt, but the city that Isaiah refers to is the Church.
In this city the Lord will provide meat and wine. The fattest meats with much marrow, and the choicest wines from the lees. This flesh and wine will strengthen the poor and needy. It will be a refuge from sin. In the city of the Church, the Lord Jesus gives to us His Body and Blood in bread and wine for the remission of sins. In the Church, the Lord provides refuge for all repentant sinners who cling to Him in faith.
This picture of the Church that Isaiah gives is really a foreshadowing of the eternal city of Heaven. Here we contend with sin and death. In Heaven and the life of the world to come there will be no death or sin. We will enjoy an eternal, unending feast of the fattest meats and choicest wines, an eternal banquet. While we remain in this life, however, we get a foretaste of that eternal feast in the Church.
Prayer: 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.
