The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 64:10
Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.
(As God's people realize the extent of their own devastation
arising from consequences they have invited into their lives
through their disobedience,
they see that not only have they themselves been punished
with exile from the safety and beauty and freedom of their homeland,
but that the place that God declared
was His dwelling place on the earth has actually been razed.
Our actions and choices have cosmic consequences,
not only for ourselves, but for others
and even for the world to which the Lord has called us.
He so deeply includes us in partnership with Him
that our union with Him, or the lack thereof, deeply impacts Him.
What had once been a place of beauty and community
and communion with the Lord was now completely destroyed.
When we walk away from our devotion to Him, we suffer grave consequences.
But, when we turn back to Him, even the wasteland and desolation
become places where the Lord reaches out to us in love
to renew our walk with Him today, to restore our communion with Him,
and to heal us from the blindness and disobedience we once embraced.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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