Today is a beautiful day, because God sometimes rescues by exile, “You shall go to Babylon. There you shall be rescued; there the LORD will redeem you from your enemies.” (Micah 4:10 ESV) His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because God honors mothers, “Let your father and mother be glad; let her who bore you rejoice.” (Proverbs 23:25 ESV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because Jesus overcame death and Hosea spoke of God’s plan to do that hundreds of years before Christ came, “I shall ransom them from the power of Sheol; I shall redeem them from Death. O Death, where are your plagues? O Sheol, where is your sting?” (Hosea 13:14 ESV) #joyinverse … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because God’s prophet, Hosea, didn’t soft-pedal God’s message to the Israelites, “Woe to them, for they have strayed from me! I could redeem them, but they speak against me.” (Hosea 7:13 ESV) God is willing and able to redeem. #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because God didn’t abandon his people while they were in exile, but was with them. “Their redeemer is strong, the LORD of hosts is his name. He will surely plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, but unrest to the inhabitants of Babylon.” (Jeremiah 50:34 ESV) … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because God loves His people with an everlasting love and gave these words to Jeremiah to pass along to us, “the LORD has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.” (Jeremiah 31:11 ESV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because God spoke to his people through the prophet Jeremiah, who said, “I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked, and redeem you from the grasp of the ruthless.” (Jeremiah 15:21 ESV) He delivers me. #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because “You, O LORD, are our Father, our Redeemer from old is your name.” (Isaiah 63:16 ESV) #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday
Today is a beautiful day, because Isaiah wrote of God’s love for his people, “In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.” (Isaiah 63:9 ESV) He … Read more
Today is a beautiful day, because Isaiah prophesied that “‘a Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob, who turn from transgression,’ declares the LORD.” #joyinverse #blessedthisdayandeveryday