Opening: What “life events” usually involve sending out announcements?
Scripture: Read
Isaiah 40:1-8.
Connect
the Text with Your Life:
- Recognize this passage? This verse is used to describe John the Baptist (see Matthew 3:3, Mark 1:3; Luke 3:4, and John 1:23).
- We all experience heartache in our lives. In the midst of yours, did you receive comfort or sense tenderness? How did the Lord help you through that situation?
- Verse 8 reads “The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of our God stands forever.”[1] What are the things, possessions, fads, etc. that wither and fade with the passing of time? Do you seek to derive happiness, acceptance, or purpose from these withering and fading things or the word of the Lord?
Prayer
Focus: That we would keep permanent things our priority
and leave behind the things that fade.
