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Isaiah 50:10 “Who among you feareth the Lord, that [obeyeth] the voice of his [servant] that walketh in [darkness], and hath no light? let him [trust] in the name of the Lord, and [stay] upon his [God].” Commentary: We are going to look at five Hebrew words translated back into English here. The translators used one English word or the best single word in English to express the meaning from the Hebrew. However we will use several English words to show the concepts of these words and their applications. The first word is ‘obeyeth’. The word used here means to hear intelligently with your undivided attention! Over your entire life you will hear two voices in your head everyday! One voice from God and one voice from Satan! These voices will oppose each other! One voice says go to the right and one to the left! Which voice will you obey? One voice leads to life and the other to death! The next word is ‘servant’. This word means the worshipper of the King! The minister of the King! Your pastor! Your shepherd! Will you obey the voice of your shepherd or will you run astray! Lost sheep! Will you follow the good shepherd or the wolf? Our next word is ‘darkness’. It means a place of ignorance and misery with a blindness to the light! It includes a place of judgment! Our next word is ‘trust’. It is someone you rely upon! Always faithful never failing you! Relying on with confidence with a good expectation with no anxiety! Then we move to our word ‘stay’. It means to rest upon or lean upon! Like a staff! Our last word is ‘God’. Remember there are several words for God used in the Hebrew and the Greek depending how it is used in context of a scripture! Here it means the divine judge of all the living and the dead! Is it not interesting he took our judgment upon a Cross? There are so many examples in your Bible of saints who were surrounded in darkness yet stayed true to God and were exalted above their troubles and came out victorious! Remember at creation there was first darkness before the light! Darkness was upon the face of the deep! What about Abraham, Noah, Job, Joseph, David, John the Baptist, Paul, Thomas, Peter, Apostle John, Jesus himself but this is not an extensive list! Noah preached 120 years but did not get one convert yet obeyed the voice of God to build the Ark! The greatest thing is to discover the light in the midst of the darkness! Our present day is full of darkness because they hate the light! If you trust God and listen to his voice no matter how bad it gets he will like Joseph take you from the prison to the palace! You may be in the dungeon of the palace yet like Jeremiah he will deliver you out of it! The three Hebrew children were in the furnace yet the light of Christ the fourth man in the furnace drove off the flames from those that trusted in him! Do not fail to be faithful to God no matter what the cost! His light will push away the darkness and sin of this world! You cannot have the light without the source of the light! It cost our Savior everything to redeem us! Show his light to those living in darkness! Heaven and earth shall pass away but not his Word! His Word created the heavens and the earth! Preach his word in season and out of season! Stay true to the truth of our Christ and do not fail to be faithful to him regardless of circumstances! Those circumstances are those living in darkness rejecting the light! James & Hamsa Sasse. IndiaJesusLovesYou.com