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August 8.- Isaiah 18 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello, friends. How are you?
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  Sean here. We're going to read the Bible
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  today. How was that?
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  What did that sound? Nonplussed enough?
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  A bunch of you have said, Ah, Sean, are you always that
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  chipper? Seriously, you can't be that
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  chipper all the time. I I would love to hear you just
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  start. Really.
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  Just not interested at all. So there you go.
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  That was my not interested start.
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  It wasn't from the heart, but I thought I'd let you know what it
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  might sound like if I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
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  But even if I did wake up on the wrong side of the bed, by the
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  time I get here to the microphone ready to talk to you
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  and read God's Word, things are looking up.
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  But if there's one thing that this biblical narrative shows
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  us, it's that life naturally has the full swings, that full ebbs
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  and flows of the good days and the bad, the high points and the
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  low. And all of them are OK.
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  All of them are legitimate because that is the way life is,
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  and God gets that. And we read about it in God's
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  Word. Whatever is happening in your
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  day, let us put it down. Let us settle and still our
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  hearts as we come before our mighty God.
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  And we pray that you, Holy Spirit, would reveal something
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  of yourself to us today as we learn more about you.
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  In your word, well, there's nothing left to do but to read.
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  Join me as we read together. Isaiah Chapter 18
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  Listen Ethiopia, land of fluttering sails that lies at
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  the headwaters of the Nile, that sends ambassadors and swift
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  boats down the river. Go swift messengers.
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  Take a message to the tall, smooth skinned people who are
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  feared far and wide for their conquests and destruction, and
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  whose land is divided by rivers. All you people of the world,
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  everyone who lives on the earth. When I raise my battle flag on
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  the mountain, look when I blow the ram's horn.
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  Listen, for the Lord has told me this.
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  I will watch quietly from my dwelling place as quietly as the
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  heat rises on a summer day or as the morning dew forms during the
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  harvest, even before you begin your attack.
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  While your plans are ripening like grapes, the Lord will cut
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  off your new growth with pruning shears.
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  He will snip off and discard your spreading branches.
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  Your mighty army will be left dead in their fields for the
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  mountain vultures and wild animals.
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  The vultures will tear at the corpses all summer.
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  The wild animals will gnaw at the bones all winter.
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  At that time the Lord of Heaven's armies will receive
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  gifts from this land divided by rivers.
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  From this tall, smooth skinned people who are feared far and
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  wide for their conquests and destruction, they will bring the
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  gifts to Jerusalem where the Lord of Heaven's armies dwells.
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  Lord, as we hear these words of judgments, as we hear that this
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  nation will be used to bring about your Roth, we get that
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  some days are going to be good days and other days are not
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  going to be great. But your hand of provision and
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  your presence is with us through those highs and those lows.
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  So, Lord, I pray that we would always know that no matter what
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  shape our day is taking, that you are sovereign, that your
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  plans for us are good, and that they are eternal, and that
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  whatever goes wrong in the here and now, you have already
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  conquered the eternal. And you draw us ever closer to
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  that day when we will see you face to face and be filled to
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  overflowing with your love and your presence.
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  And we will feel nothing, that glorious gratitude and
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  overwhelming joy that our wonderful, beautiful God.
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  So we just love you and we thank you.
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  And it's in Jesus name that we pray.
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  Amen.