Daily Devotions
Isaiah
"Enlarge the place of your tent"
Text: Isaiah 54:2
POSITIVE ACTION
With the new horizon envisaged, Israel must take the necessary positive action. This would reflect faith in the LORD!
“Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.”
Isaiah 54:2-3
1. The imagery of “tents”.
a) This imagery was used.
b) Many would move out of Babylon and their shelter would be tents.
c) Tents would represent their dwelling place.
2. A word of encouragement.
a) To “enlarge”.
b) To “stretch out” the curtains.
c) To lengthen the cords of the tents.
d) To strengthen the stakes that are used to tie the cords (ropes).
3. A great promise.
a) Israel will expand to the right and left.
b) The nation must look beyond to the future generations.
c) The descendants will inherit the nations.
i) The wealth of the nations.
ii) The prosperity of the Gentiles.
d) The desolate cities.
i) They will be inhabited again.
ii) Israel would be able to rebuild strongly and successfully.
iii) The children they take in would be the future of the nation.