Journal

• Please use one of the prompts below to get your journaling started.

  • Explore your fears and what’s behind them.
  • Write about a relational conflict you are experiencing.
  • List out all that you are grateful for.
  • Recall a significant reaction, conversation or event.

   Here are some tools to help you with the devotionals:

  • A Guide to Journaling & Prayer
  • A Guide to Self-Reflection
  • A Chart to help articulate feelings

Bible Passage: Isaiah 57:14-21

¹⁴ And it shall be said,

   “Build up, build up, prepare the way,

    remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”

¹⁵ For thus says the One who is high and lifted up,

    who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:

    “I dwell in the high and holy place,

    and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,

    to revive the spirit of the lowly,

    and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever,

    nor will I always be angry;

    for the spirit would grow faint before me,

    and the breath of life that I made.

¹⁷ Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry,

    I struck him; I hid my face and was angry,

    but he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart.

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;

    I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

¹⁹     creating the fruit of the lips.

    Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the Lord,

    “and I will heal him.

²⁰ But the wicked are like the tossing sea;

    for it cannot be quiet,

    and its waters toss up mire and dirt.

²¹ There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Questions to help us go deeper

Reflect on the portrait of God depicted in these passages.

• What is He like?
• Reflect on the ways you have experienced this aspect of God.
• Are there ways that your current view of God needs to be corrected or refined through today’s passage?
• Praise God for who He is.

Prayer