Daily Devotion May 23

May 23: Isaiah 60:17-22

KJV Key Verse: Isaiah 60:20
20 Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended .

Devotion:
How would you try to describe something you have not seen before? How would you describe something that has only been described to you? Or what if you were able to see something you have never seen the like of before and then asked to describe it? We would try to take what we know and make comparisons to those things so we could try and shed some light onto what we saw or heard about.

One thing I struggle with is the ability to describe the way people are. I could probably make up descriptions of what people looked like and would be reasonable at face recognition or rebuilding, but to try and describe what they are like as a human or spiritually is quite difficult for me to do. We all have our own ways of seeing things and describing things. Physical mineral objects may be easier for me to describe because I could relate what I see to what I have seen in the past and this is what Isaiah is doing here to a certain extent.

Being able to describe what tomorrow will be like is always going to sound subjective; but when Isaiah was given insight into how God would make this world and heaven like, he then had to come up with some way of describing things for others to get the picture from. So he takes the things of the time and tries to explain how they could be better so we can get the idea heaven is going to be that much better than anything we know now.

But then Isaiah goes on to describe something new – the fact we will not have to depend on physical light but will be engulfed with God’s magnificent light instead. Now we may not be able to comprehend this sort of thing, we can all (those who can see at least) describe how beautiful things can be based on the light we know. Suffice to say, God is creating us a place which we will find very special and one which will be better than any dreams we have…

Points to Ponder:
How would you describe Heaven?

How do you describe God?