The beauty of being in three or more scriptures all at the same time is that you can see how God can draw jumping lines between them all. 

The beauty of the beach includes the waves coming over and over again. Isaiah 12, sings of God’s triumph, I think that we are to sing this over and over, because God wins over and over. The sunshine and sand were beautiful and there was plenty of distance between me and the rough sea. God puts His Love between us and the roughness of day to day life – we have comfort as we are drawn closer to Him.

I was so happy to dig into my Beach book, ‘Name Above All Names’, alongside Isaiah 12, it’s a great reminder of life, ever since Genesis, God and evil spar, this is in so many biblical examples and still today. So most of these thoughts are not novel, not mine, but connections are fresh to me when God put them together. For I connected Genesus talk to a devotion about Jesus on the cross and at the wedding saying “Woman” and not ‘Mother’ or ‘Mom’ to Mary, I wondered Jesus’ tone of voice. I thought how interesting it was that Jesus could look at any situation and the whole world with Divine insight in human eyesight.  

What Mom is Mary? Not just an ordinary woman, and yet simply ordinary, just not raising an ordinary child. So what view does Jesus have of her? Both human view, as in love to Mom, and Divine view to fulfill prophecy in being the offspring of the woman giving seed into the world, the offspring of Israel’s tribe, from root of Jesse, and of Jesus being the ‘seed of the woman’ born to crush the snake of evil. Down with the devil. 

Jesus may see and say all things to both fulfill scripture and do all things to be scripture. Jesus says to the woman, His human mom at the wedding, ‘don’t anticipate miracles’, my time has not yet come – AND to the earthly woman in Divine lineage from Eve as her seed, ‘my time is yet to come’. Woman. If He was angry, it faded, Jesus brought the best wine. 

Jesus says to the woman at the cross, ‘behold your son’, meaning John will take care of her – AND ‘woman behold your son’ as the Divine collection of all of us to be held by the world until Jesus returns again. Jesus brings the best Time. He puts distance between us and our sins. He puts eternity into our hearts. 

Remember, the wine at the wedding was the finest, best for last. Jesus brings us Salvation, and Forever, best for last. As the mother of the Son is cared for, imagine all the children of all time, Jesus cares for us all. God may show anger, as He did with the Israelites, but remember Salvation by Jesus is the comfort for our forevers… 

Let us sing over and over to help others know our song is for the Son and for His Salvation.

Amen 

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Isaiah 12

In that day you will say: “I will praise you, Lord. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation.” With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.

In that day you will say: “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim that his name is exalted.

Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world.

Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.”