{"id":72175,"date":"2025-03-24T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/?p=72175"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:35:11","slug":"the-lord-rises-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/the-lord-rises-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord Rises Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 33:1-24, Isaiah 34:1-17, Zechariah 10:6, Romans 5:8-11<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are hard and sobering verses, aren\u2019t they? Today\u2019s chapters round out the sixth of Isaiah\u2019s woes, this one directed at Assyria. We\u2019re witness to Judah\u2019s desperation and God\u2019s detailed promise to ruin a nation that harmed His people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what we also see on full display is our Father\u2019s unfailing love. Even after all Judah had done, God spoke hope and redemption for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a pattern we know, isn\u2019t it? Beginning all the way back in Genesis, every time His people turned their hearts from God and then cried out in their distress, God was faithful to meet them. They had hit that desperation here\u2014even the warriors, the bravest among them, cried loudly in the streets (Isaiah 33:7). They were broken. Yet Isaiah\u2019s plea for grace from God was paired with a bold declaration of faith that they knew when God would rise up, the nations would scatter (v.3). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not if, but when.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their hope in God was still alive. They still feared Him, and that was their treasure (v.6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This hope, full of a fear and respect for God, opened a new door for God\u2019s people. Here, something changed. God had been so faithful, raising up leaders like Abraham, Moses, and David. He raised up judges and kings and prophets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now we read of a different way God will save them. It\u2019s time for a new raising up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Isaiah says, \u201cwhen you rise in your majesty\u201d (v.3), it feels like an invitation for God\u2019s reply just seven verses later. It\u2019s like God says, \u201cNow that you understand you\u2019re out of options, now that you\u2019ve come to your own end, now I will rise up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can you imagine the hope and relief that pulsed through Judah as God pronounced these three \u201cnows\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I will rise up.
Now I will lift myself up. 
Now I will be exalted (v.10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God promised to strengthen, deliver, and restore Judah (Zechariah 10:6). And He would reconcile and save those who trust in Him (Romans 5:8\u201311). He would restore peace. He promised Jesus our Judge, our Lawgiver, our King (Isaiah 33:22): Jesus, the One who lived righteously, the One who dwells on high, the One who is our daily bread and living water (vv.15\u201316).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To save His people from their suffering, He has raised Himself. He made a way for all who love Him, for all whose fear of the Lord is their treasure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Because of the LORD\u2019s faithful love, we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning. <\/em>
\u2014Lamentations 3:22\u201323<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Marnie Hammar<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scripture Reading: Isaiah 33:1-24, Isaiah 34:1-17, Zechariah 10:6, Romans 5:8-11 These are hard and sobering verses, aren\u2019t they? Today\u2019s chapters round out the sixth of Isaiah\u2019s woes, this one directed at Assyria. We\u2019re witness to Judah\u2019s desperation and God\u2019s detailed promise to ruin a nation that harmed His people.  But what we also see on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":71922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lent2025"],"acf":{"hero_background_image":false,"related_plans":[71943],"weekly_truth":false,"grace_day":false,"share_text":"#SheReadsTruth","devotional_text":"THE LORD RISES UP<\/b>

\r\nby Marnie Hammar<\/i>

\r\n

These are hard and sobering verses, aren\u2019t they? Today\u2019s chapters round out the sixth of Isaiah\u2019s woes, this one directed at Assyria. We\u2019re witness to Judah\u2019s desperation and God\u2019s detailed promise to ruin a nation that harmed His people.<\/p>
\r\n

But what we also see on full display is our Father\u2019s unfailing love. Even after all Judah had done, God spoke hope and redemption for them.<\/p>
\r\n

It\u2019s a pattern we know, isn\u2019t it? Beginning all the way back in Genesis, every time His people turned their hearts from God and then cried out in their distress, God was faithful to meet them. They had hit that desperation here\u2014even the warriors, the bravest among them, cried loudly in the streets (Isaiah 33:7). They were broken. Yet Isaiah\u2019s plea for grace from God was paired with a bold declaration of faith that they knew when God would rise up, the nations would scatter (v.3).<\/p>
\r\n

Not if, but when.<\/p>
\r\n

Their hope in God was still alive. They still feared Him, and that was their treasure (v.6).<\/p>
\r\n

This hope, full of a fear and respect for God, opened a new door for God\u2019s people. Here, something changed. God had been so faithful, raising up leaders like Abraham, Moses, and David. He raised up judges and kings and prophets.<\/p>
\r\n

And now we read of a different way God will save them. It\u2019s time for a new raising up.<\/p>
\r\n

When Isaiah says, \u201cwhen you rise in your majesty\u201d (v.3), it feels like an invitation for God\u2019s reply just seven verses later. It\u2019s like God says, \u201cNow that you understand you\u2019re out of options, now that you\u2019ve come to your own end, now I will rise up.\u201d<\/p>
\r\n

Can you imagine the hope and relief that pulsed through Judah as God pronounced these three \u201cnows\u201d?<\/p>
\r\n

Now I will rise up.
Now I will lift myself up.\u00a0
Now I will be exalted (v.10).<\/p>
\r\n

God promised to strengthen, deliver, and restore Judah (Zechariah 10:6). And He would reconcile and save those who trust in Him (Romans 5:8\u201311). He would restore peace. He promised Jesus our Judge, our Lawgiver, our King (Isaiah 33:22): Jesus, the One who lived righteously, the One who dwells on high, the One who is our daily bread and living water (vv.15\u201316).<\/p>
\r\n

To save His people from their suffering, He has raised Himself. He made a way for all who love Him, for all whose fear of the Lord is their treasure.<\/p>
\r\n

\u00a0Because of the LORD\u2019s faithful love, we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning.\u00a0<\/em>
\u2014Lamentations 3:22\u201323<\/em><\/p>","share_image_height":"640","day_number":"22","scripture":"Isaiah 33:1-24, Isaiah 34:1-17, Zechariah 10:6, Romans 5:8-11","available":true,"ad_banner_name":"","ad_banner_image":false,"ad_banner_url":"","songs":"","key_verse":"","key_verse_reference":"","background_image":false,"background_color":"#FBF7F3","scripture_references":false,"share_image":false,"author_name":"","author_bio":"","guest_social_media":false,"show_ad":true,"ad_override":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shereadstruth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}