10/03/2026
Isaiah 9:7
“…The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.“
“The zeal… that mixture of hot honour and affection to which ‘jealousy’ in its good sense comes near. It is that overflow of the love that cannot keep still, which, when men think God has surely done all He will or can do for an ungrateful race, visits them in their distress and carries them forward into unconceived dispensations of grace & glory. It is the Spirit of God, which yearns after the lost, speaks to the self-despairing of hope and surprises rebel and prophet alike with new revelations of love. We have our systems representing God‘s work up to the limits of our experience and we settle upon them; but the Almighty is ever greater than His promise or than His revelation of Himself” (George Adam Smith).
