1. Isaiah 50:4 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What made the “morning by morning” appointment needful?

Isaiah 50:4 (ESV)

4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

The Servant’s fit tongue is the result of an awakened ear that enjoys a morning by morning discipling from God. This prolonged attention from God was needful, given the Servant’s unhearing ears (Isaiah 42:18–19).1