The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 58:12
Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins
and will raise up the age-old foundations;
(Generations before when the Assyrians
had invaded and laid waste their land,
and then again while God's people had been in exile in Babylon,
their homeland had lain in ruins, having been overrun by the enemy
and with no one to remain there to care for or rebuild the land.
Now, the Lord tells His people that He will return them to their home
so that they can rebuild what had been destroyed over the generations.
Now, today, the Lord tells us His people that He will cause us
to take back what has been stolen from us,
to return to that place where we had lived in strength and prosperity of soul
before our lives had been shaken by hardship and challenges.
Not only will we return to our former homeland of strength and purpose,
but we will rebuild out of that desolation and what seemed to be waste.
Here's His promise to us: What had been destroyed, we will rebuild.
Where our foundations had been broken and ruined,
we will dig again and rebuild.)
you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,
Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.
(And, today, rather than being called Failure, Broken, Hopeless, Despairing, or Unloved,
the Lord gives us a new name of Victor, Delivered, One Who Prevails, and Restored.
As He returns us to the inheritance of life in Him that He originally had given us,
He will strengthen us to repair the breaches in the walls of our lives,
walls that had protected us from the enemy,
and to return to the roadways of prosperity and hope
where we had dwelt in homes of prosperity, peace, and safety.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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