The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 63:18-19
For a little while Your people possessed Your holy place,
(Now in exile, the people lament that for such a relatively short time
they had inhabited the Promised Land given to them by the Lord,
had lived in peace and rest in that Land,
or had enjoyed the Temple their ancestor Solomon had built,
especially compared to the forever covenant vow
that the Lord had given them concerning these promises.)
but now our enemies have trampled down Your sanctuary.
(They see the consequences of their having been unfaithful
to their part of the covenant that the Lord had so graciously made with them.
They were in exile and their enemies possessed the land they had been granted.)
We are Yours from of old; but You have not ruled over them,
they have not been called by Your name.
(We also may experience times when we see the devastation of the enemy in our lives.
Even then, however, even in those times when we see defeat around us,
even when the enemy and those who mistreat us seem to be victorious,
we remember that the Lord has not been their God
and has not taken His place of enthronement over their lives,
nor has He called them His Own as their covenant Lord.
Just as Isaiah has done, in our times of need,
we focus on our foundational relationship with the Lord,
that we belong to Him, that He has said we belong to Him,
and that His covenant still holds us to Him as we ask His forgiveness.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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