DCLM Daily Manna 2025: DCLM Daily Manna 28 July 2025: Embrace God’s Grace
KEY VERSE:
“Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me, and he shall make peace with me.” – (Isaiah 27:4,5).
BIBLE READING: Isaiah 27:1-13
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
2 In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
3 I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.
4 Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
5 Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
6 He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
7 Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
8 In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
9 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.
10 Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
Exactly one century, one decade and a year ago, World War 1 broke out between the Allied forces and the Central Powers coalition on July 28, 1914. What started as a regional diplomatic altercation had snowballed into a global conflict that involved Europe, Asia, the middle East, the Pacific, and Africa. By the time the war ended in November 1918, over 8 million civilians and 9 million soldiers had been killed. A whopping 23 million others were wounded in what turned out to be one of the deadliest wars in history. World War 1 ended after the Central Powers coalition embraced the truce offered by the Allies.
The passage for today’s meditation hints at another conflict between man and God. It pictures God as a warrior with a strong sword ready to punish the Leviathan, the crooked serpent, or the dragon in the sea. Leviathan here is evil personified. It denotes Satan, who instigated man to rebel against God. The briers and thorns represent men in their doomed alliance with Satan and enmity with God. But the prophet Isaiah predicts a time when Satan’s influence on earth will be destroyed, and people can embrace God’s offer of the armistice.
To pass this message of hope and emancipation to all, God points to Israel’s transformation from being a useless vine to a fruitful vine (Isaiah 5:1-7,27:2-6). This illustrates the change that happens when people yield themselves wholly to God. Fruitless lives are transformed through God’s grace as He purges all our iniquity because of what Jesus Christ has done for us at Calvary.
Cheer up! God says He is not furious with you but offers peace, protection, nourishment, and expansive fruitfulness. If you have drifted away from God, all you need do is change your mind and return to Him. Embrace His offer of peace and prepare to be gathered unto Him when the trumpet sounds at the rapture.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Be wise and make peace with God; you cannot win a battle against Him.
THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
2 Chronicles 34-36
Daily Manna 28 July 2025
