- 25. My Strength, Song, and Salvation
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength, and my song; he also is become my salvation.
God is my Salvation. Salvation belongs to our God. Because the Lord has become my salvation I will trust and not be afraid. God promises to be for us Strength, Song, and Salvation. This promise was fulfilled for us when Jesus came to earth and completed this mission.
I am weak, but He is strong. I have no strength, but the Lord is my strength. The Lord God Almighty, Creator and Father of all, is my Strength. That God became a human being; His name is Jesus. That God strongly overcame and definitively defeated the Enemies that were against us. The Death and Resurrection of the Lord, Yahweh, won victory over Sin, Death, and the Devil by Grace and Truth. This is my strength. To confess, “God is my Strength,” involves two beliefs: 1) I am not strong; I cannot by my own reason or strength believe in Jesus Christ or come to Him, and I certainly cannot do enough good works to become a righteous person; therefore, I repent in dust and ashes; 2) Jesus is strong for me; He does for me everything I cannot do for myself; the Holy Spirit uses the Gospel to convince me that Jesus is my Lord and my Strength.
As my Song, the Lord has brought unbridled joy to my heart; therefore, I will sing and shout for joy. My worship and praise to God is unbounded; so I sing. I do not sing because I feel good; I sing because God is good. This God, Jesus, has become my Song. The Holy Spirit has put a song in my heart and a dance in my feet. When I believe the Gospel Jesus comes in and I will sing a new song; it is new because He is mine and He is always fresh and new. Joy in the Lord may be the same over and over, but it is never boring. No matter how I hear it, or how often I hear, the Gospel is always a new song. Clean and fresh and new is always good.
God has become my Salvation: God became a man and died for me. That event gives me forgiveness of sins, eternal life, and salvation from everything negative and harmful to me. God is the salvation; God does the saving. He has taken away from me everything bad and replaced it with everything good. I am saved from Sin and given Righteousness; I am saved from Death and given Life; I am saved from the Devil and given God. When I believe this promise, I make it personally my own. Salvation brings me from hell to heaven; it bridges a huge chasm.