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THOUGHTS
Who is our God? He is the Glorious Majestic one who “longs to be
gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on
you.” We, by our thinking and behaving allow God to bless us!
The words at the end of verse 22 are powerful... “BE GONE!” We must
say this to our worldly lusts! Mark 8:33 But turning
around and seeing His disciples, He rebuked Peter and said, "Get
behind Me, Satan; for you are not setting your mind on God’s interests, but
man’s." We must live with God’s interests in front of us!
Jas 4:7 Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he
will flee from you.
Isa 30:18-23
Therefore
the LORD longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have
compassion on you. For the LORD is a God of justice; How blessed are all
those who long for Him. 19 O people in Zion, inhabitant in
Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the
sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you. 20 Although
the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your
Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher. 21
Your ears will hear a word behind you, "This is the way, walk in
it," whenever you turn to the right or to the left. 22 And
you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images
plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them,
"Be gone!" 23 Then He will give you rain for the seed which
you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will
be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy
pasture.
My Prayer:
O gracious and compassionate God of all creation, may our eyes behold You as
our Teacher. May Your Spirit be in us and guide us to eternal
victory! May Your word be continually before us and teach us the joy of
Your salvation in Christ Jesus. May Your word wisdom be in our ears
to cause our right walking. Bless us with Your awesome love as we flee to
You for life eternal. We praise You for the words we read above.
Help us to make them work in our lives. Help us to long for You.
In the name of our Savior, Amen.