Not deserted!
"No longer will they call you Deserted... for the LORD will take delight in you." (Is 62:4 NIV)
Through the prophet Isaiah this is what God spoke over the people of Israel, but it is just as true in our lives. We have the habit of becoming dejected and low [for a great many reasons] and we call ourselves 'deserted'. Not in so many words of course; instead we find ourselves praying out of formula/habit because we are too tired to wander if God hears us at all, or we find ourselves in work looking at those around us and for some reason feeling 'lost at sea', surrounded by mountainous waves and billowing skies.
But we are not deserted, we are the delight of the Lord!
It may seem hard to appreciate at times but this does not mean that it is not true. Even though prayers may be a long time in being answered, even though it may seem as our prayers create no response in the heavenlies... we are called to pray; to keep on breathing our prayers. We make the difference, wherever we are. As the delight of the Lord we are influential, and as people of influence we are called to be determined.
"I've posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. Day and night they keep at it, praying, calling out, reminding God to remember.They are to give him no peace until he does what he said, until he makes Jerusalem famous as the City of Praise." (Is 62:6-7 MSG)
Through the prophet Isaiah this is what God spoke over the people of Israel, but it is just as true in our lives. We have the habit of becoming dejected and low [for a great many reasons] and we call ourselves 'deserted'. Not in so many words of course; instead we find ourselves praying out of formula/habit because we are too tired to wander if God hears us at all, or we find ourselves in work looking at those around us and for some reason feeling 'lost at sea', surrounded by mountainous waves and billowing skies. But we are not deserted, we are the delight of the Lord!
It may seem hard to appreciate at times but this does not mean that it is not true. Even though prayers may be a long time in being answered, even though it may seem as our prayers create no response in the heavenlies... we are called to pray; to keep on breathing our prayers. We make the difference, wherever we are. As the delight of the Lord we are influential, and as people of influence we are called to be determined.
"I've posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. Day and night they keep at it, praying, calling out, reminding God to remember.They are to give him no peace until he does what he said, until he makes Jerusalem famous as the City of Praise." (Is 62:6-7 MSG)
- Andrew Carey
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