I was pressed for time this morning, my schedule was disrupted by odds and ends of life so before I left the the house I thought I should read something, anything, from God’s word. I plopped open my Bible to Isaiah 35.
Because of where I live, the high desert of eastern Washington, these verses are meaningful. Because of when I live, a post Christian society that sees no need for God but is blind and deaf and lame and mute and thirsty, so very thirsty for truth and love and grace and mercy and healing, these verses are meaningful.
“The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory of the Lord,the splendor of our God.
Strengthen the feeble hands, steady the knees that give way; say to those with fearful hearts,“Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”
Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs.
In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there, nor any ravenous beast; they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there, and those the Lord has rescued will return.
They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them,and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
Isa 35:1-10NIV
My favorite part of this is the part that says “those the Lord rescued will return.”
I am one of those rescued. I was enslaved and imprisoned by my own rebelliousness but God sent Jesus to rescue me. ❤️the offer stands to anyone who wants to be free, believe in Jesus, accept what he did as payment for your sins, make him your Lord your boss. It’s that easy.
#waterforthethirsty #freedom #rescued
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