When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Colossians 3:4.

“Now the LORD says, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant…” Isaiah 49:5.

Those who love their life in this world will lose it. Those who care nothing for their life in this world will keep it for eternity. John 12:25.

And continuing our 351 Old Testament prophecies, promises of God, fulfilled in Jesus Christ, we come to number 150: David’s son called LORD. Psalm 110:1: The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.” And, Matthew 22:44-45: “The LORD said to My LORD, ‘Sit at My right hand, until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet.’ If David then calls Him ‘LORD’, how is He his son?”

Reading the second Scripture verse above, I found it curious so I turned to Isaiah. And this is too beautiful to be missed: Listen to Me, O islands, and pay attention, you peoples from afar. The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me. He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, in the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; and He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver. He said to Me, “You are My Servant, Israel, in Whom I will show My glory.” But I said, “I have toiled in vain, I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to Me is with the LORD, and My reward with My God.” And now says the LORD, who formed Me from the womb to be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to Him, so that Israel might be gathered to Him (for I am honored in the sight of the LORD, and My God is My strength), He says, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also make You a light of the nations so that My salvation may reach to the end of the earth.” Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One, to the One abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers, “Kings will see and arise, Princes will also bow down, because of the LORD who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.” Isaiah 49:1-7. This isn’t describing the ancient nation of Israel. This is describing it’s Messiah, the Messiah of all nations, who came and speaks still.

***WEIGHTED DOWN – O LORD Almighty, God of our ancestors, of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and of their righteous offspring; You who made heaven and earth with all their order, who shackled the sea by Your word of command, who confined the deep and sealed it with Your terrible and glorious name; at whom all things shudder and tremble before Your power, for Your glorious splendor cannot be borne, and the wrath of Your threat to sinners is unendurable. Yet immeasurable and unsearchable is Your promised mercy, for You are the LORD Most High, of great compassion, longsuffering, and very merciful, and You relent at human suffering. O LORD, according to Your great goodness, You have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against You, and in the multitude of Your mercies You have appointed repentance for sinners so that they may be saved. Therefore You, O LORD, God of the righteous, have provided repentance for me, a sinner. For the sins I have committed are more in number than the sand of the sea. My transgressions are multiplied, O LORD – they are multiplied! I am not worthy to look up and see the height of heaven because of the multitude of my iniquities. I am weighted down with many an iron fetter, and I have no relief, for I have provoked Your wrath and have done what is evil in Your sight, setting up idols in my heart and multiplying offenses. And now I bend the knees of my heart, imploring You for Your kindness. I have sinned, O LORD, I have sinned – I admit it. I earnestly implore You: forgive me, O LORD, forgive me! Do not destroy me along with my transgressions. Do not be angry with me forever. For You, O LORD, are the God of those who repent, and in me You will manifest Your goodness. For, unworthy as I am, You will save me according to Your great mercy, and I will praise you continually all the days of my life. Amen. “The Prayer of Manasseh.” Though apocryphal, this prayer fits well with the story of Manasseh’s repentance in 2 Chronicles 33:10-19.***