• “Listening to God” Bible Reading & Devotion: Nov 4, 2025 – Isaiah 059

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    Chapter 59 (ESV)

    9 Therefore justice is far from us,
    and righteousness does not overtake us;
    we hope for light, and behold, darkness,
    and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
    10 We grope for the wall like the blind;
    we grope like those who have no eyes;
    we stumble at noon as in the twilight,
    among those in full vigor we are like dead men.
    11 We all growl like bears;
    we moan and moan like doves;
    we hope for justice, but there is none;
    for salvation, but it is far from us.
    12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
    and our sins testify against us;
    for our transgressions are with us,
    and we know our iniquities:
    13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
    and turning back from following our God,
    speaking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

    14 Justice is turned back,
    and righteousness stands far away;
    for truth has stumbled in the public squares,
    and uprightness cannot enter.
    15 Truth is lacking,
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.

    The Lord saw it, and it displeased him
    that there was no justice.

     

    REFLECTION:

    1. Silence – Read/Listen – Meditate – Pray – Contemplate
    2. As you read the passage aloud, replace “we” with “I”, and “our” with “my”. What might God be thinking as He hears you read this?
    3. What is the word or phrase that touches you today as you read and meditate on this passage? What is your emotion as you read this word or phrase?
    4. Now, make a list of sins – big and small – that you’ve committed in the past week. In prayer, go through your list item by item, admit to God that you should not have participated in such wrongdoing. Do this with a humble and repentant heart. Ask God to help you not to focus any longer on your sin, but to be free to focus and turn toward Him.
    5. As you go through today, make a point to confess your sins to God. As you do this, be as specific as you can about your sins, acknowledging your desperation and futility in attempting to live apart from Him.

     

    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:

    Lord, to You I Make Confession – youtu.be/UWKILhyFR6Y

     

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In January 2009, PGC started the “260 Appointments with God” Bible Reading and Devotion program. From September 2017, the program has a vision to help brothers and sisters do devotion and reading through the whole Bible in four and a half years starting with the Book of Genesis. The program was renamed to “Listening to God” in January 2020. Thank the Lord the first cycle finished with Revelation on March 25, 2022. From March 28, 2022 “Listening to God” began another cycle starting with Genesis. The order of the books is alternated between the Old and New Testaments. For details, please refer to Bible Reading and Devotion Book Sequence.

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