“Come now, let’s settle this,”says the Lord.“Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow.Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool. Isaiah 1:18
We serve a God of reconciliation. One who wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives. One who already knows our thoughts but wants to hear them from us in our own words. He delights in that.
People everywhere are seeking something, but too often they are asking the world to supply something it never can. Real Peace. But not the kind the world offers. The kind only God can give. Real and lasting peace. The kind of peace that comes despite every circumstance life throws at us.
Too often we look to the world for answers......we think the best and brightest humanity has to offer is good enough. It reminds me of that old song, "Looking for love in all the wrong places." When we look to the world for our answers we will come up empty every time.
Only when we begin to entertain the possibility of something bigger than ourselves, hope blooms like the crack of the dawn spilling over a mountain.
This is our future, and it is indeed, a future filled with hope. The world doesn't have the answers or the hope we need for our future, but God does. This is the future God has for us......
People from many nations will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of Jacob’s God.
There he will teach us his ways,
and we will walk in his paths.”
For the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion;
his word will go out from Jerusalem.
The Lord will mediate between nations
and will settle international disputes.
They will hammer their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will no longer fight against nation,
nor train for war anymore. Isaiah 2:3,4
Hundreds of years before Jesus was born, Isaiah prophesied exactly to the letter all the facts concerning the birth of Jesus.
The rest is history.
God has always had hope for the world.......and that hope came through Jesus.
I wish you a day filled with His peace today wherever your path takes you and that you have a real sense of His presence.......
How lovely! This is the second blog I've read today about 'HOPE!'
ReplyDeleteAnd the verse about God reasoning things out with us and our sins white as wool-this verse came to me as I walked this morning, and I thought of the same thing-how neat it was that God wants us to hash things out with Him. Isn't it amazing too, that He would know we need to toss that particular topic around a lot in our heads-the topic of our sins...Sometimes so very hard to FEEL forgiven, though we know we are. Hope, hope and more hope. I have even thought of having that word tatooed on my wrist. Really I have.
Love, Debra
So much truth here, but this is what I'm hanging onto tonight:
ReplyDeleteThis God ... "who already knows our thoughts but wants to hear them from us in our own words."
Thank you for the reminder. He knows. He knows.