Father God,

Today, I pray that Your children would ponder the depths of Isaiah 43:1 and respond in the gratitude of obedience to which we are called as the redeemed of the Lord.

Though You have just spoken through Isaiah about the judgement which would come upon Israel for her refusal to even recognize her blindness and deafness in disobeying Your revealed Law, here in 43:1, Isaiah reveals something even deeper than judgement.

Though judgement would come, You would be faithful to the covenant (implied but not explicit). You had “created” them, had “formed” them, had “redeemed” them, and had “called” them “by name”. Each of these actions dove deeper into the intimacy of the Your work in the very being of Your people.

Having taken on the responsibilities for Your people as next of kin redeemer, You enacted Your plan for everything thing that they need and culminate this expression of faithfulness by calling them Your own in “You are mine”.

Judgement would not negate Your redemptive work even in the enacting of the judgement.

In Christ, we have the fulfillment of the covenant and thus the guarantee of that covenant’s application to our lives. We read elsewhere of the extent to which You will go to fulfill that covenant to us. Let us respond with love worked out in obedience to Your Word.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.