TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Memorize this Verse: (Cover the verse text and using just the first letters of each word try to recite the entire passage.)
17. F I W R H U T A I W H T O T W S T L B T C T A O S T I Z W N M S A
That is, bring thee into a comfortable and prosperous condition, both in church and state. With respect to things religions and civil: as the afflictions and distresses of the Jewish nation are expressed by sickness, wounds, and bruises. So their prosperity, both spiritual and temporal, is signified by health. The words may be rendered, “I will cause length to ascend unto thee”; or a long plaster. Or rather, that which has been long looked for, and long in coming, prosperity. Or else, that whereas they were before bowed down with afflictions and sorrows, now they should be as a man in an erect posture. Which rises up in his full height and length, being in a robust and healthful state.
“And I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord”: Pardon their sins, remove their afflictions, and bring them into a comfortable situation, into a Gospel church state, and into their own land.
“Because they called thee an outcast”: As were the Jews at that time, cast out of their own land, rejected from being the people of God. So, they are reckoned by the nations who surrounded them.
“Saying, this is Zion, whom no man seeketh after”: After their good, either temporal or spiritual”: Despised by most, pitied and prayed for by few. And fewer still they are that seek after, and are solicitous about, or take any methods, or make use of any means, for their conversion. But though man does not, God will, and his work will appear the more obvious.
Not only does God heal His people, but He keeps them in divine health. Israel has always been thought of as an Outcast. The church of the Lord Jesus Christ (Zion), is thought of as an Outcast as well. The world does not understand salvation. Anything they do not understand they declare an Outcast.
1 Corinthians 2:14 “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.”
TODAY'S BIBLE READING
Today's Bible Reading Plan selections can be found below. If you don't have a Bible with you, just click the references to read each passage online:
Old Testament
Jeremiah 44-46 — 8.0 minutes
Song of Solomon 1 — 3.5 minutes
New Testament
John 5:16-30 — 4.0 minutes
1 Peter 2:1-8 — 2.0 minutes
Total Average Read Time — 17.5 minutes
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