Today we are called to worship with:
For the sake of my servant Jacob, and Israel my chosen, I call you by your name, I name you, though you do not know me.
Here the Lord was speaking through Isaiah calling Cyrus as His chosen servant to free Israel from the Babylonian exile.
God did this for the sake or purpose (maʿan) of His servants Jacob and Israel. This was being done because of a prior promise that had no cause in Cyrus.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
Today we wake, worship, and go back to work this week under that same prior promise and for that same purpose. Paul said it well:
Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
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