You ever read something and it just hits you, life is turned right side up, and you're filled with awe? I do. All of the time. [AKA this color/new season thing might not stick.] But here it is for today:
Thus says the Lord, Your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel,
"I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
If only you had paid attention to My Commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea." Isaiah 48:17-18
I can't get enough...
I want to shout it out, write it on everything I see, meditate on it all day long. I get it. For the hundredth time in my life, I get it. God wants us to profit. He wants our well-being to be like a river and our righteousness like the waves of the sea. He says... obey My commands for that reason. Not because I don't want you to have fun or because I want to control you and bind you up and make you even more an alien in the world. Quite the contrary... He wants us to be free to live an excellent life. He says, pay attention! My ways are better than yours... because I see the big picture.
It's not about being perfect, and following a set of rules... it's about living. L I V I N. (Little Dazed and Confused quote for you.) God has already saved us... His forgiveness and grace has covered our past, present and future sins already. So now He wants us to live in Him so our "name will never be cut off or destroyed from His presence." vs. 19
Guh. Drink deeply of this truth. It is a freeing and beautiful thing to be a child of God. (I might have just sounded like Beth Moore or Kay Arthur, but I'm over it.)
cheers.
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