Today: [Isaiah 61] Locating Yourself in the Word. In Isaiah 60 we see the words of Jesus in Luke 4:18-19 echoed by the prophet 100’s of years before Jesus came on the scene. We know that Jesus studied the scripture and can glean understanding that as He read the word it was not dead letter but living destiny to Him that He set out to fulfill. The apostle Paul likewise looked at the scripture this way and even in 1 Kings there was a king named in the scripture 340 years before his birth who also found himself in the scripture and set out to fulfill his destined purpose. What about you? Can you find yourself in the scripture? Is there any validity to appropriating scripture for yourself as Jesus, Josiah and Paul did?
