Text: Isaiah 51
God tells us the barren will produce, and what was wilderness will be like Eden. Verses 7-8 exhort us not to fear. Fear is a corrupted form of hope. Both of them are future.
Verses 9-16 give several strong directions:
1) Awake and put on strength. We're asked if we were the ones who dried up the sea. Recall what God has done in the past, and recognize there is no one greater.
2) Sing, be joyful instead of complaining. Fearful people don't sing. They scream and cry out.
3) Don't throw away your confidence.
4) Endure difficulty. "We are not the shrinking-back kind!"
To often we embrace sorrow and mourning. Don't feed them. They'll hang around like a stray cat that you continually feed.
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