July 28th, 25: Finding Life and Hope: Exploring Isaiah 53-56 and 2 Peter 2 Together

Welcome to the Daily Radio Bible! In today’s episode, host Hunter guides us through a rich journey in the Scriptures, reading from Isaiah chapters 53 to 56 and 2 Peter chapter 2. We begin with some of the Bible’s most powerful passages about the suffering servant and God’s deep, unfailing love—a love that invites us to come with open ears and hearts, no matter our hunger or thirst. Hunter reflects on how God’s word brings life, hope, and restoration, reassuring us that no one is beyond God’s generous forgiveness.

Together, we also explore warnings about false teachers, and the call to live justly and faithfully. The episode is woven with heartfelt prayers, reminders of God’s faithfulness, and a deep sense of community as Hunter thanks the listener supporters who make this podcast possible. Whether you're joining for the first time or have been walking this daily journey for years, today’s episode is an invitation to listen, find life, and remember that you are deeply loved.

TODAY'S DEVOTION:

Come with your ears wide open. Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Then come to God. Don’t come in ignorance, or with a sense of doom, fearing what you’ll hear him say. Instead, come with your ears wide open, because what you’ll hear are God’s words of love—a love that will never fail. In Isaiah 55:3 we hear this invitation: “Come to me with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David.” See how rich and generous the gifts of God are for the hungry and thirsty, for the broken. It’s beyond what we can imagine.

We so often close our ears to God, because we fear. We fear his words of judgment, of rejection. But the prophet says otherwise. Open your ears wide—because what you’ll hear is a generous forgiveness, a mercy that far exceeds our highest hopes. Isaiah continues: “Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” His thoughts about you—his plans for you—are greater and richer and better than you could ever dream.

It is his word, this generous food for the hungry, that opens our eyes and minds to his heart and his ways. Isaiah 55:11 says, “It is the same with my word. I send it out and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.” All of this is an everlasting sign of his power and his love.

So look up, thirsty one, and see what God has done. He has sent the final word—his Son. Open your ears wide and hear God’s answer to your thirst, your hunger, your brokenness: it’s Jesus, the living Word. So come with your ears wide open. Listen—and you will find life.

That’s the prayer that I have for my own heart, for my own soul. That’s the prayer I have for my family, for my wife, my daughters and my son. And that’s the prayer that I have for you. May it be so.