MY PURPOSE WILL STAND, AND I WILL DO ALL THAT I PLEASE
Isaiah 46:3-13
“Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born. Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.”
In all that God may say or do with Israel, he does not shrink from his commitment to them—the covenant he made with Abraham. This is not about them; it is about God.
And so God, through his prophet Isaiah, calls out to the Jews, and calls out to us as well, “Listen! Remember! Keep it in mind! Take it to heart! Listen!”
I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
I am God, and there is no other.
I am God, and there is none like me.
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.
What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.
Listen to the words of the One True God; bow down and worship him. Bring to him all your tears and sadness, your pain and sorrow, your sin and weakness, your need and desire, your prayer and petition.
“I am bringing my righteousness near, it is not far away; and my salvation will not be delayed. I will grant salvation to Zion, my splendor to Israel.”