Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Isaiah 44:24-28
by: Matthew Berg.
The repeated term used of God here is Lord, but he is also Redeemer. This is a passage about overturning the world's power structures and submitting them to God. This is the God we serve: he will even use the enemy as his "shepherd" (v. 28)! God will use any and all means to glorify himself and the kingdom he is establishing. If that requires using foreigners, so be it. This was the stinging message of Jesus to the Jews in Luke 4:23-27: God's program will continue with or without us.