The Lord Be With You Today!
Isaiah 66:1-2a
This is what the Lord says:
"Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool.
(Far from being confined to a dwelling made by human labor,
far from any human effort being able to construct a place
that could ever contain Him or ever be worthy of Him,
far from being confined to a dwelling that encompasses the earth even in its entirety,
the Lord reminds us that He fills the heavens and the earth,
but that He is also outside and beyond both,
that His grand and glorious throne is seated in the highest heavens,
magnificent beyond our imagination,
and that as impressive as is the earth to our human eyes,
it is no more than a mere footstool for this Great God Almighty.)
Where is the house you will build for Me?
Where will My resting place be?
(The Lord's rhetorical questions remind us that no man,
nor any of the work of man's hands can construct a dwelling place for Him.
Though we so often, perhaps unconsciously,
try to erect walls that contain and constrict God, He can't be restrained.
Our God boxes, the boxes with which we keep trying to fence Him in,
no matter how wide they may appear to be, cannot and will not contain Him.
The futility of our trying to build a resting place for the Lord
is made manifest in the Lord's decision
to provide His Own rest on the seventh day of creation.
What a reassurance that should be for us,
that the Lord doesn't need our provision for His rest,
that He never tires, never grows weary in His work on our behalf,
that the Lord is beyond and over any situation, any need, any problem,
any challenge that we may face. Nothing daunts Him or limits Him.)
Has not My Hand made all these things,
and so they came into being?" declares the Lord.
(From the earliest times in the Garden of Eden to the Tower of Babel,
mankind's pride of life is so prevalent that it lends itself to the false notion
that we, on our own, can be like God,
that the pot can direct the Potter, that the pot is equal to the Potter.
Man's misguided and foolish idea that the creature, the created,
can contribute to and provide for Creator God points to the irony
that our human efforts are only made possible by the Creator Himself.
What He desires from us is not for us to do something for Him
or gain favor by our performance,
but to submit our lives to Him today,
to honor Him in worship by giving back to Him
the very life He has given us.)
May the Lord richly bless you this day!
In Christ's love,
Blessings!
Sally
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