Isaiah 66 holds an incredible promise and posture that we should have toward God’s Word. The LORD God who made the Heavens and earth declares:
Thus says the LORD: Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool … All these things my hand has made; and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. (Isaiah 66:1a, 2)
Jeremiah Burroughs, a Puritan who preached a series of sermons around this verse in 1644, helps us today:
Who are more despised among men than those who are poor and contrite spirits, whose hearts shake and tremble at God’s Word? … All the beautiful objects in the world are not so lovely in the eye of God as a heart that trembles at the Word. The Lord accounts nothing in all the world worthy of looking at in comparison to this object. But at this the Lord looks with abundance of delight…
…Certainly, if you tremble at God’s Word, you shall be comforted. Though perhaps you do not yet find comfort, yet if the Word of God can make your heart to tremble, it will comfort you. Wait for it…
…Whenever you come to hear, do not hear it as the word of men, but as the Word of God. Though it seems to be harsh to you, oh, it comes to your good. And there is cause why you should do so. It is the Word from whence you had your life. That’s the immortal seed of the Word by which you are begotten. If your souls are begotten to God, it was by the Word…
One of the great comforts to our soul that we know Christ as our Savior and have peace with God is if our hearts tremble at God’s Word. Only the Lord knows if your heart truly trembles at His Word. If that is true, He looks to you! If that is not true, beg Him to make it so! For He loves to answer the prayer that exclaims, “For you have exalted above all things your name and your word”! (Psalm 138:2)
Source: Burroughs, Jeremiah. Gospel Fear: A Heart that Trembles at the Word of God. Orlando: Soli Deo Gloria Publications, 1991.
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