Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
First Isaiah wants to know who has believed. Second he says, "and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?"
If you go through out America today, many, many people will tell you that they believe in Jesus. Do you know that God's will for you does not stop with believing! God wants to reveal him self to you. You cannot overlook the second part of this verse. Revealing is the part God does.
To reveal means:
1 to make known through divine inspiration
2 to make (something secret or hidden) publicly or generally known <reveal a secret>
But what does God want to reveal to us? He wants to reveal his arm to us. Our responsibility is to believe the report of the Lord. Once we believe God, he then desires to reveal his arm to us. It isn't automatic that when we believe that the arm of the LORD will be revealed to us. There are a whole lot more people who believe in God than there are people who have had the arm of the LORD revealed to them.
Psalms 44: 1-3 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old. How you did drive out the nations with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out. For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had favor unto them.
God saves us by his right hand and his arm! What are you facing today. The arm of the LORD is mighty to save. Let God reveal himself to you. Believe in him, and trust in him, and he will reveal his mighty right hand. Can you trust God? God may not give you what you want, when you want it, but he will always give you the best for your circumstance!
Isaiah 51: 5 My righteousness is near; my salvation has gone forth, and my arms shall judge the people; the coastlands shall wait upon me, and on my arm shall they trust.
When things aren't going right, and they are not what they should be, God brings forth justice with his arm, and by his arm he judges all things. He expects us to trust in his arms. Children must learn to trust and rest in their parents arms. A small child cannot feed themselves, bathe them self, take care of them self, but their parents have mighty strong arms that are constantly working to meet their every need. Does that mean that the child is never hungry or needing a bathe. Well, sometimes the child has to wait on the parent. God has mighty strong arms, and he is constantly working and moving to meet our every need in Christ Jesus!
Psalms 136:12 With a strong hand, and with an outstretched arm: for his mercy endures forever.
Whatever you need today, you must go beyond prayer if you want to see the arm of God meet your provision today. It is good to pray, but beyond prayer we must trust and obey God. Take a step of faith and fully rely on God and be obedient to what he ask you to do. When we take our belief in Jesus and we trust him like we would trust something tangible, we have opened up the way for God to reveal to us his mighty arm.
