“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8 (55-59)
The later chapters of Isaiah go beyond the prophecy of a nation soon to be saved, freed from bondage and returned home. It tells of a final restoration, a time when sin and sorrow will be no more. There is an ideal, a utopia spoken of, but the reality is far from this Holy existence. In real time and living color man does not love God and certainly has no thought to the well being of others. Society is rotten to the core with lies, malice and violence.
Israel is reminded that God’s love is not exclusive. They are called to be a conduit, but all who believe will enter the Kingdom. God’s Temple, is meant to be a house of prayer, the origin of strength and encouragement in worship and obedience. The people of Judah, like their kinsmen to the north had done, profane the sabbath, their governmental leaders are selfish gluttons who watch others starve, and exploit justice for personal gain. God assures those who are oppressed, but persevere, their agony will be avenged.
The complexities of today’s world, and a speeding internet that provides crisis updates to the very second, overwhelms me and I get lost in a shadow of doom. There are too many variables, diversities and failures among humanity for God to ever make something good come again. Wrong! Despair draws man to God with confessions. God will never forsake a humble, crying heart. He knows just what to do! “As the rain and the snow come down from Heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My word that goes out from my mouth. It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:10-11
March boldly forward, and rest well at the end of the day, because God is still God and forever will be. You don’t have to know the answer, you just have to know He has the answer.
Love,
Gretchen