Encourage the exhausted, and make staggering knees firm.
Say to those with an anxious and panic-stricken heart,
“Be strong, fear not!” (Isaiah 34:3,4).
“I don’t feel strong,” we might say.
“Fear not!” The Bible tells us with an exclamation point.
Indeed, your God will come with vengeance [for the ungodly];
The retribution of God will come,
But He will save you.”
The eyes of the blind will be opened
And the ears of the deaf will be unstopped . . .
These are words of hope. The Bible is the Good News to those who believe. But when I look left and right I see chaos and violence. How about you. We must fight to look up and believe God:
A highway will be there, and a roadway;
And it will be called the Holy Way.
The unclean will not travel in it, But it will be for those who walk on the way [the redeemed];
And fools will not wander on it . . . (Is. 34).
How offensive this might sound to the natural ear, mind, and heart. But those who have tasted and seen the goodness and forgiveness of the Lord in His willingness to take all our sin on the cross, we’re reminded time and again,
“This is all my righteousness, nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
But just as winter turns to spring, work must be done:
Sow righteousness for yourselves,
reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;
for it is time to seek the Lord,
until he comes
and showers his righteousness on you Hosea 10:12.
It’s time to return.
And the ransomed of the LORD will return . . .
They will find joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing will flee away Isaiah 34: 3-5,8, 10, Amplified.
My open Bible changes me. It is true as Psalm 19: 7 proclaims:
The law of the Lord is perfect,
reviving the soul; (Psalm 19).
I’ve found revival for my weary soul in only a short reminder in God’s Word. Is anyone else being revived in the process of turning to the Lord in His Word for help?
The testimony of the Lord is sure,
making wise the simple;
But I wrestle with God. “What about this? How is this going to work out? What am I supposed to do?
Do we wrestle with God? Yes. We’re broken. We have stories and testimonies in our Bible pages of this.
But God never changes. He’s the same, yesterday, and forever. We can grow to trust Him more if we spend time with Him:
The precepts of the Lord are right,
rejoicing the heart;
the commandment of the Lord is pure,
enlightening the eyes;
the fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever;
the rules of the Lord are true,
and righteous altogether Psalm 19: 7-9.
If this is what God says will bring rejoicing in my heart, then I will seek Him now, with my whole heart . . .
join me in this need to know Him more?
“Dear Lord, we believe. Help our unbelief!”
