• “Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Oct 16, 2025 – Isaiah 046

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    Chapter 46 (ESV)

    1 Bel bows down; Nebo stoops;
    their idols are on beasts and livestock;
    these things you carry are borne
    as burdens on weary beasts.
    2 They stoop; they bow down together;
    they cannot save the burden,
    but themselves go into captivity.

    3 “Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
    all the remnant of the house of Israel,
    who have been borne by me from before your birth,
    carried from the womb;
    4 even to your old age I am he,
    and to gray hairs I will carry you.
    I have made, and I will bear;
    I will carry and will save.

    5 “To whom will you liken me and make me equal,
    and compare me, that we may be alike?
    6 Those who lavish gold from the purse,
    and weigh out silver in the scales,
    hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god;
    then they fall down and worship!
    7 They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it,
    they set it in its place, and it stands there;
    it cannot move from its place.
    If one cries to it, it does not answer
    or save him from his trouble.

    8 “Remember this and stand firm,
    recall it to mind, you transgressors,
    9 remember the former things of old;
    for I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like me,

     

    REFLECTION:

    1. Silence – Read/Listen – Meditate – Pray – Contemplate
    2. What is the word or phrase that touches you today as you read and meditate on this passage?
    3. Bel & Nebo were the names of two principal gods in Babylon. Do you notice the contrast between the idol’s burdens (verses 1-2) and the Lord (verses 3-4)?
    4. What is your emotion as you read this passage, comparing the burdens of the idols and God as your father carrying you when you were weak? Or as a strong man sustaining you when you were tired? Or as a warrior rescuing you when you were trapped?
    5. How is that related to your current situation? What does God tell you to do?

     

    PRAYER:

    Stay with God for a little longer.  Continue to converse with God and listen to what He wants to tell you.  Then write down any thought and/or prayer in your spiritual journal.

     

    HYMN:

    You Are My All In All – youtu.be/zC617kE1maU

     

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