The Second YES

The Second YES

In Isa. 50:4, the NB88/07 translation (Norwegian) says: “The Lord God has given Me a disciple’s tongue, that I may strengthen the weary with My words. He awakens My ear every morning; He awakens it that I may hear as disciples hear.” It is glorious to experience that God is speaking to me, that I am in fellowship with Jesus. Or when I am sitting in a meeting and I get revelations—a Bible verse I have heard so many times before suddenly takes on a whole new meaning. I can clearly sense: I am chosen and loved by God.

But now it is very important that this joy and these good feelings do not blind me. On the contrary—now the Holy Spirit must be allowed to work within me, so that I can see my own sin and joyfully take up the fight. In verse 5 we read: “The Lord God has opened My ear; and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away.” And in verse 6: “I gave My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who plucked out the beard; I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.” Now I am right in the midst of the battle. Now I can prove that I truly love God—not only by saying the first YES when He revealed Himself to me, but also by saying the second YES: by suffering together with Him!

Let us not be cowardly or afraid of suffering, but be filled with a fighting spirit against our own sin. Then we will also experience what we read in verse 7: “For the Lord God will help Me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.”