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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Isaiah 55:1-13
As with the rock struck by Moses in the desert (Isaiah 48:21), a river of life and blessing flows from the work of Christ’s cross — an inexhaustible spring offered to everyone that thirsteth! Here it is the call of the prophet, but the Lord Jesus speaks in the same way when He says, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink" (John 7:37; see also this gracious "whosoever" in John 3:15-16; John 11:26; John 12:46). Two things characterise God’s great salvation.Firstly, it is free. Men take considerable pains and spend large amounts to obtain "that which satisfieth not", when the most excellent of all we can possess is obtainable "without money and without price". God has paid the full price (cf. Isaiah 52:3).
Secondly, salvation must be had now. "Seek ye the LORD while he may be found" (v. 6). God is near, He pardons abundantly . . . but hurry! The time is coming when man will no longer be able to come to Him (John 7:34; John 8:21).
Let us consider in this lovely chapter what is said of thoughts of love and of the ways of God, past finding out (vv. 8, 9; cf. also Romans 11:33-36), and of His Word: "it shall not return unto me void" promises v. 11. Has this Word had this effect in your heart?
