Today’s Reading:
Read Isaiah 46:8-11; Isaiah 48:12-19; Isaiah 49:8-13; Psalm 135
What is something that happened to you yesterday? What is something that happened to you today? Do you know something that will happen to you tomorrow? It’s easy to think of things that have happened in the past. And it’s simple to consider what happened to us today. Yet tomorrow? Do we really know what will happen to us tomorrow?
God’s message to the Israelites in our reading today was a reminder of how God had been with them in the past. It also pointed out how God was with them in their present. It promised that God would be with them in the future. Isaiah spent time explaining to the Israelites that God had been faithful to take care of them by creating the world, choosing them and saving them from the Egyptians. God promised to lead them as they followed Him. And because of his faithfulness in the past, Isaiah reminded the people that they could trust that God would be with them in the future.
Isaiah 49:8 “I will answer you in a time of favor and I will keep you in the day of salvation. I will keep you and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land…” These verses all point to promises that God made about would he WOULD do for the Israelites. And because He had been faithful in the past, Isaiah reminded the people that they could trust that He would be faithful in the future.
Application/Prayer:
Spend some time as a family thanking God for how he has provided for you in the past, how he provides for you today and how he will provide for you in the future.
July Memory Verse:
“Truly I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.”
Using the daily reading prompts from George H. Guthrie’s Read the Bible for Life, here’s how to use this devotional:
- Bring your Bible! Your kids need to see that everything you are reading to them or learning about comes from an actual Bible!
- Each day starts with a reading prompt. Read the selection as a family. If your kids are readers, encourage them to read along with you.
- After you’ve read the passage, read the short devotional thought that goes along with each passage.
- Prayer and application are important any time we read God’s word! After each devotional, there is a challenge to help apply what your family has read that day.
- There is a reading for six days of the week. The last reading of the week is a Gospel Conversation Prompt to help you connect the reading from the week with God’s plan for salvation.
Other Resources:
July memory verse coloring sheet
July Fill-in the blank activity