Isaiah 50:7 (New International Version)
7 Because the Sovereign LORD helps me,
I will not be disgraced.
Therefore have I set my face like flint,
and I know I will not be put to shame.
I was reminded of this verse yesterday. God gave it to me years ago when I was an intern in Oregon.Yesterday as I was praying, I was thinking of this verse again.
You know, the first time that I came across this piece of Scripture was actually in my first weeks of being a Christian. I did not know the Bible really then. But I knew that I needed to persevere. All hell had broken lose after I declared Jesus the Lord of my life. One thing in particular was my relationship to my fiance back then.I was bombarded with really evil stuff. Especially my mind was a battle ground of its own.I knew I had to
hold on to Jesus - that was all that made sense to me. The friend that had brought me to Christ, prayed for me that Jesus might set my mind like a flint. I really liked that prayer for that is what I so so needed. I could actually picture it and made it my daily prayer to Jesus:
Please make my mind like flint!
That is when I first got to know the verse. Later as I learned more and more to read the Bible, I studied this vese, this passage.
Having a mind like flint is all about an attitude just like Jesus had on the cross (Phil 2). He set his mind like flint when the darkness came and HE for -the first time- felt the loneliness and seperation from HIS Father...He felt all our sin and shame...HE needed that mind to be set like a flint!
So here I am and I say:
Because the Sovereign LORD helps me,
I will not be disgraced.
Therefore have I set my face like flint,
and I know I will not be put to shame.
My mind is hard now against all the lies ot the enemy.....
and my heart knows that I won't be put to shame because I trust in Jesus and Jesus alone!
4 comments:
I remember thinking that was a confusing verse. But it's so cool that scripture evolves with us as we grow up in Christ. Way to go Kerstin!
I always loved taht Scripture from the first moment I saw it 9 years and 8 months ago. I realized more and more over the years and when God gave it to me for our first intern year, I felt so deeply about that verse and understood it..it is quite amazing- can only be the Holy Spirit :) Today , this verse cariie dme through!
That is so interesting... I don't remember praying that with you, and yet I am so happy that it STUCK! Interestingly... a month ago I was the reader at Mass, and the Old Testament scripture reading was that passage. I felt it to be incredibly encouraging to me as I set my face for Rwanda. Today was a hard day with hurtful opposition, and I knew that I needed to get focused again and not be pushed down. How neat that we are both encouraged by this passage this fall...
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