🍞 Isaiah 44

Isaiah 44 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.

Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “Then it will be for a man to burn; and he takes some of it, and warms himself. Yes, he burns it, and bakes bread. Yes, he makes a god, and worships it; he makes it a carved image, and falls down to it.” Isaiah 44 opens with these words: “Yet listen now, Jacob my servant, and Israel, whom I have chosen.” The line to keep is Isaiah 44:6: “This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.” Carry the word “king” from that verse into the rest of the day.

The line worth learning out loud is Isaiah 44:6: “This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.

What happens first in Isaiah 44? Then try this: Read “This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am…” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.