The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 64:7
No one calls on Your Name or strives to lay hold of You;
(In the time of the Israelites' exile, they had so far strayed from the Lord
that it was as if they were in a deep sleep and unable to arouse themselves
to call on the Name of their God for deliverance and help.
The idea of laying hold of the Lord has to do with drawing strength from Him,
and Israel was in such a stupor, had felt they had so deeply forsaken God,
that they were not even calling out to the Lord.
The farther we stray away from the Lord and His purposes for us,
the less we call on Him, the less we seek Him, the less we focus on Him,
and ultimately the weaker we become,
simply because we are not aligning ourselves with Him
Who is the very Source of our strength.
When we are blinded into disobedience and sin,
when we step into a path that leads us away from Father God,
our relationship grows cold which only separates us more from Him
and which is the very most critical time we need to turn to Him in repentance.)
for You have hidden Your Face from us
and have given us over to our sins.
(Because of the sin that separated the people from God,
they felt He had forsaken them,
that their rejection of the Lord was insurmountable.
They felt His anger at their sin was causing them to melt away in fear.
We often try to put the blame on God for where we are
when, in fact, He doesn't shift, He doesn't change,
and there isn't even a shadow of turning in Him.
When we call on Him, when we lay hold of Him,
when we draw our strength from Him,
His forgiveness and mercies are new every morning
and nothing can separate us from Him and His love for us.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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