Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God. That energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God Himself willing and working at what will give Him the most pleasure. Philippians 2:12-13 THE MESSAGE.

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. Matthew 6:34 MSG.

See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you. Isaiah 42:9.

There is something so beautiful in closeness with Creator God – Father…Son…Spirit. We recognize love that is real. We can hardly fathom that kind of love. We experience love through family and friends, but learn early how limited that love is. And love that is real desires what is good for all. And our chapter, Isaiah 23, is the end of Isaiah’s specific prophecies against specific nations; in this chapter, Tyre. In the notes below it said, “Tyre was one of the most famous cities of the ancient world. A major trading center with a large seaport, Tyre was very wealthy and very evil. Tyre was rebuked by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25:22, 27; 47:4), Ezekiel (Ezekiel 26-28), Joel (Joel 3:4-8), Amos (Amos 1:9, 10), and Zechariah (Zechariah 9:3, 4). This is another warning against political alliances with unstable neighbors.” Unstable. Can we relate to that word today? A prophecy against Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them. Be silent, you people of the island and you merchants of Sidon, whom the seafarers have enriched. On the great waters came the grain of the Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre, and she became the marketplace of the nations. v. 1-3. Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth? The Lord Almighty planned it, to bring down her pride in all her splendor and to humble all who are renowned on the earth. v. 8-9. It even gives a timetable of 70 years after which Tyre will return to her lucrative prostitution and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. v. 17.

Do we notice the hand of God working in our world today? Did they in any of the nations then? We get so caught up in the events happening in our own spheres of living and by extension happening in the world beyond us that impacts our lives. And what about in our personal lives lived right now? Do we long for understanding not clouded by our own interpretation? A light dawns and we see it and have hope. It shows something much bigger than ourselves. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5. The darkness cannot overcome it and flees. What is that light? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. John 1:1-4. In Him the light of all mankind. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him. He came to that which was His own, but His own did not receive Him. Yet to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God – children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. John 1:9-13.

Are we allowing ourselves to be impacted by the true light that is our life lived with God…or are we heralding still the limited light of nations stumbling in the darkness of this world? His own did not receive Him…the world did not recognize Him. Why not? How could that be? Don’t be deceived by the nations today drunk on the power they think will save them. We are witnessing destruction of nations today. Only the light of God’s truth will save us. It’s not our truth. It’s the truth of God’s love that will save us and only He can bring His light…and He does…and He will. No human being can save this world. No nation can save this world. Thank Almighty God for that! He alone is worthy. He is the most important thing so needed today and always. You don’t have to be a prophet of God to see that truth, but be thankful God used them to help us see. God invites us to be His children now and be changed by the light of His truth which is His love given for us to save us from the darkness of our sin. After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!” Mark 1:14-15. That’s personal. It’s given for each one of us. Will we choose life with God? Will we allow Him to bring change in us that leads us out of the darkness of worshipping ourselves and everything else but Him? There is something so beautiful and needed in closeness with our Creator God – Father…Son…Spirit! Repent and believe the good news!