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Evening, May 17 | “You are My servant, I have chosen you.” —Isaiah 41:9 (NASB)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Isaiah 41:8-10 (NASB)

“But you, Israel, My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,
You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its remotest parts
And said to you, ‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and not rejected you.
Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

Devotional Video Transcript:

If we have received the grace of God in our hearts, its practical effect has been to make us God’s servants. We may be unfaithful servants, we certainly are unprofitable ones, but yet, blessed be his name, we are his servants, wearing his uniform, eating at his table, and obeying his commands. We were once the servants of sin, but he who made us free has now taken us into his family and taught us obedience to his will. We do not serve our Master perfectly, but we would if we could. As we hear God’s voice saying unto us, “You are my servant,” we can answer with David, “I am Your servant… You have loosed my bonds.” (Psalm 116:16)

But the Lord calls us not only his servants, but his chosen ones — “I have chosen you.” We have not chosen him first, but he has chosen us. If we are God’s servants now, we were not always so; to sovereign grace, the change must be ascribed. The eye of sovereignty singled us out, and the voice of unchanging grace declared, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” (Jeremiah 31:3) Long before time began or space was created God had written upon his heart the names of his elect people, had predestinated them to be conformed unto the image of his Son, and ordained them heirs of all the fullness of his love, his grace, and his glory.

What comfort is here! Has the Lord loved us so long, and will he yet cast us away? He knew how stiffnecked we should be, he understood that our hearts were evil, and yet he made the choice. Ah, our Savior is no fickle lover. He does not feel enchanted for awhile with some gleams of beauty from his church’s eye, and then afterward cast her off because of her unfaithfulness. No, he married her in old eternity; and he hates divorce! The eternal choice is a bond upon our gratitude and upon his faithfulness which neither can disown.

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