The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 64:12
After all this, Lord, will You hold Yourself back?
Will You keep silent and punish us beyond measure?
(The deep and fervent prayer of the repentant Isaiah continues
as he mourns the devastation which Israel has experienced.
He looks at what he and his people have been subject to,
the destruction of Jerusalem, the very city of God,
as well as the Holy Temple, the actual earthly dwelling place of God,
and realizes their disobedience and lukewarm attitudes have brought about
not only great loss in their personal lives through the Babylonian invasion
and their subsequent exile from their homeland,
but it has caused their relationship with the Lord to be broken
and the very center of their worship experience to be taken from them.
Like the Israelites, we often want to indulge our own self-will,
but rarely do we welcome the consequences of those choices.
Today, we may have ourselves experienced
the invasion of Babylonian "sin" consequences into our lives
and our own subsequent exile from our homeland
of an unbroken relationship with the Lord.
The answer to Isaiah's and our question today
about the extent of our deserved punishment
is the Lord's unswerving, unfaltering faithfulness and mercy to us His people.
He Who calls us to account also provides the means
of restoration and forgiveness that we so desperately need even yet today.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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