How Will You Respond? Will You Respond?

How Will You Respond?

Pastor Calvin Cook

November 13, 2025

“‘To me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So now I have sworn not to be angry with you, never to rebuke you again. Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,’ says the Lord, who has compassion on you.” — Isaiah 54:9–10 (NIV)

God  is speak through Isaiah with a deeply personal promise — a covenant of mercy and peace that will not be shaken, no matter what happens in the world around us. His love is steady, firm, and unchanging. But the question for us today is not whether God will be faithful.

The question is:  How will you respond? How will you be faithful?

We live in a world overflowing with information, noise, and distraction. Our minds are flooded with updates, controversies, and opinions long before we ever open the Bible or turn to God in prayer. We chase headlines more passionately than we chase after God.

We know every detail about a celebrity divorce but won’t ask how the couple next door — the ones barely holding on — are really doing.

We can argue about political strategies, but we struggle to speak one word of hope to a lonely heart.

We cheer louder for our favorite sports team than we do for Jesus, who gave his life for each of us.

We feel more urgency over a referee’s bad call than over the eternal destiny of a hurting friend. There is judgement and ridicule towards the one who was once lost in sin and depravity making a step towards Jesus

And all the while, God calls to us personally — not into guilt, but into mission, relationship, and response.

The Covenant Still Stands — But what about the covenant we made to God.

Isaiah 54:9–10 reminds us that God has already done His part: His anger is turned away. His compassion is toward us. His peace is offered freely. His love is unshakeable.

But here is the part we don’t like. The covenant invites us into partnership — into living differently, seeing differently, responding differently.

The world tells us to be spectators. Pay your admission price and enjoy the show. God is calling us to be servants. The world distracts us with noise. God invites us into His peace. The world teaches us to consume. God teaches us to care. The world trains us to react. God calls us to respond.

Isaiah’s question echoes into today: If God’s love will not be shaken, why are we so easily moved by everything else?

How long will we take? How long will we let distractions steal our purpose? How long will we delay answering God’s personal call?

How long will we watch the world crumble while the Gospel remains on our lips but not in our steps? If ever there was a time for the church to rise, it is now. If ever there was a moment to respond to God’s call, it is today. If ever there was a season to fix our eyes on the lost, the lonely, the hurting, with not more stuff but with Jesus — it is this one.

God has promised peace. God has given mercy. God has opened the door.

How will you respond?

Lord, forgive me for being distracted by the noise of this world. Help me respond to Your call with conviction, compassion, and courage. Turn my attention from the temporary toward the eternal. Give me a heart that breaks for the lost, eyes that see the spiritually hurting, and feet that move toward Your mission and great commission. Let me live in the certainty of Your unshakeable love and respond with a life fully surrendered to You. Amen.

Final thought:

God’s covenant is unshakeable — but our calling requires a response.

Choose today to answer Him with your heart, your voice, and your life.