09/28/2026
I would like to share a devotional I read today.
“Isaiah 25:1 - O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
“Isaiah 25:1 is a burst of personal worship in the middle of a world full of chaos. Isaiah isn’t speaking about a distant deity; he calls the Lord ‘my God’ and celebrates that the Lord has done “wonders” that were planned long ago and carried out with perfect faithfulness. Today is an invitation to stand where Isaiah stood—looking back at God’s track record, looking around at confusing circumstances, and still choosing to lift our hands and say, “I will praise Your name,” even when we don’t yet see the full picture.
“Isaiah doesn’t just say, ‘O LORD, You are God.’ He says, ‘O LORD, You are my God.’ That one little word—‘my’—turns distant truth into living relationship. It is one thing to believe there is a Creator. It is another thing entirely to say, by faith in Christ, ‘This holy, sovereign, all-powerful Lord has taken me as His own.’ In Jesus, this is not presumption; it is covenant reality. Jesus shed His blood so that you could be brought near, so that you could cry out like Thomas, ‘My Lord and my God.’ (John 20:28).
“This is where real worship starts: not with vague respect, but with personal surrender. Have you actually claimed Him as ‘my God’—not just in theory, but in your schedule, your relationships, your money, your fears? Romans 10:9 tells us, ‘That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.’ To confess ‘Jesus is Lord’ is to say, ‘You own me. You rule me. You rescue me.’ Today, let Isaiah’s words become yours. Say it out loud if you need to: ‘LORD, You are my God.’ Let that confession confront any area where you’ve been living as if you belong to yourself.
“Isaiah praises God not only for what He has done, but for what His works reveal: God’s wonders are not random; they come from plans formed long ago in perfect faithfulness. The cross of Christ is the clearest example. Peter says Jesus was ‘delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God’ (Acts 2:23). The worst evil ever committed—the murder of the Son of God—was at the very same time the greatest wonder of grace: your salvation, long planned, perfectly carried out. Heaven is not scrambling to keep up with earth. God is never improvising.
“That means your life is not a loose pile of accidents, either. You may feel like things are spinning, breaking, or stalling, but Romans 8:28 still stands: ‘And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.’ Not some things. All things. The breakup, the diagnosis, the delay, the disappointment—none of it is wasted in the hands of a God who makes wonders from long-laid plans. You don’t have to understand the pattern to trust the Planner. You just have to decide whose wisdom you believe more: your own limited perspective, or the God whose faithfulness stretches from eternity past to eternity future.
“Isaiah doesn’t wait for everything to be neat and tidy before he praises. Much of the book of Isaiah is written in seasons of judgment, looming invasion, and national upheaval. Yet in the middle of it, Isaiah chooses to exalt the Lord. That is the kind of praise that shakes hell—praise that rises before the breakthrough, not just after. Jeremiah wrote to exiles in Babylon and relayed this word from God: ‘For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.’ (Jeremiah 29:11). Those words were given to people who were still in chains. God was teaching them—and us—to hope and to worship in the dark.
“You may be tempted to wait until you ‘feel it’ to praise, or until you see how the story turns out. But faith learns to praise in advance. It looks at Christ’s empty tomb and says, ‘If You conquered death, You can handle this.’ Jesus told His disciples, ‘In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.’ (John 16:33). That victory is already accomplished, even if your circumstances have not caught up with it yet. Today, your call is not to figure everything out; it is to do what Isaiah did—lift your eyes above the swirl of the moment and deliberately exalt the Lord for who He is and for the plans He has already set in motion.”
(Bible Hub devotional 9.28.26)
