This Offer Won’t Last!
Read Isaiah 52:13–55:13
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1. “Is anyone thirsty? Come and drink—even if you have no money! Come, take your choice of wine or milk—it’s all free!
2. Why spend your money on food that does not give you strength? Why pay for food that does you no good? Listen to me, and you will eat what is good. You will enjoy the finest food.
3. Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.
4. See how I used him to display my power among the peoples. I made him a leader among the nations.
5. You also will command nations you do not know, and peoples unknown to you will come running to obey, because I, the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, have made you glorious.”
6. Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him now while he is near. Isaiah 55:1-6
Making big decisions usually takes a while. A person doesn’t typically get married, buy a house, or have a child on a whim. On the other hand, some decisions can’t wait. The opportunity is here today—it may be gone tomorrow.
This reading contains an offer from God to take advantage of now. So put it at the top of your list of things to do, and don’t delay. This is one offer that definitely doesn’t get any better and won’t be around forever.
Other offers not to miss in this reading include Christ’s payment for sin and a free reminder that God’s ways are higher than ours.
Isaiah told his people to call on the Lord while he is near (Isaiah 55:6-7). He wanted them to respond to God while they still had the chance, and not delay.
God doesn’t make occasional appearances and then leave us, but he also doesn’t wait forever while we “think about” whether or not we’ll respond to him. Deliberately putting off the decision to accept Christ as Savior tests God’s patience.
Don’t test God’s patience or wait until you’re “ready” to call on him. Turning to him later in life may be far more difficult than it is now. Or worse, you may die or Christ may return to judge the earth before you decide to follow him. Therefore, seek God now, while you can, before it is too late. Someday it will be.
