I’ve fallen several days behind in my Bible reading program. The moving and our new living arrangements make it difficult to read so much each day. [About 12 pages a day are required. 45 minutes to an hour of uninterupted reading. We live in one room, I don't get 1 minute of uninterupted anything.] Constant distractions have me reading the same sentence over and over and over. Isaiah isn’t exactly easy reading, so that made me fall even further behind.
I started taking notes here to help me get through a big chunk of reading tonight. Nothing too fancy written by me, but the verses are definitely worth reading
As I read Isaiah 53, the classic hymn [performed by Jars of Clay and the Blind Boys of Alabama], Nothing But the Blood of Jesus, rocks my laptop.
The Song:
“What can wash away my sin?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
The Scripture:
“But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.” – Isaiah 53:5
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Other verses that caught my attention today:
- Isaiah 43:18,19 – “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland.”
- Isaiah 57:1,2 – Good funeral verse.
- Isaiah 57:15 – God lives in a high and holy place and with the lowly in spirit.
- Isaiah 58:6-8 – True Fasting: Loose the chains of injustice, share your food with the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, clothes to the naked.
