THE GLORIOUS LORD

This verse is taken from:
Isaiah 33. 20-21
Thought of the day for:
10 April 2022

The believer has no need to question of whom the prophet speaks in this verse, Acts 8. 34. No other could bear that glorious name but Christ. It comes at the end of the second set of seven woes, and presents, in that lovely name, an array of glories that raise the spirit grieved by woe after woe. How often when cast down, a look at Christ lifts the heart!

Isaiah salutes our glorious Lord as the God of limitless might, v. 13, as ‘the King in his beauty’, v. 17, as the Judge, the Lawgiver and Saviour, v. 22. Many diadems do indeed adorn His brow, but to Israel in a coming day, ravaged by war, no glory will shine brighter than that of the Prince of peace, 9. 6. It is that particular glory that shines brightly in verse 23. They will be able to muse on past terror, but no unease will flutter disturbingly in the breast, v. 18. Never again will they see a fierce people or hear the threatening tones of a foreign tongue or take down their tent to flee from some invader, vv. 19, 20.

A settled inner peace will be enjoyed when, like us, they learn that the Lord is ‘for’ (KJV ‘unto’) them, v. 21. And that inner peace of the individual will be answered in a permanent national peace. No enemy will invade by land, v. 1, and no sea power will threaten them, v. 21. They will not hear the tramp of some army drawing near nor will a warship of any description approach with evil intent. The strategic protection of their rivers was one of the advantages of their great enemies, Babylon and Nineveh. Land-locked Jerusalem seemed so vulnerable compared to them, but not when the glorious Lord arises to surround them as if with broad rivers, vv. 10, 21.

Internally and externally they will enjoy peace, when they see the King in His beauty. Other blessings will also be theirs, both physical and spiritual. They will have unbroken health, none needing to say, ‘I am sick’, and unbroken communion, for their iniquity will be forgiven, v. 24. All this will be theirs, for the glorious Lord will be ‘for’ them. That same glorious Lord is ‘for us’, who also know forgiveness and peace with God. We can ask with Paul: ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’, Rom. 8. 31.

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