Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Isaiah 48:17
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."

It is quite an amazing thing to think about the fact that God has to tell me to listen to Him because He knows what's best for me. Imagine, the God of the universe, who made me and formed me actually having to tell me that I don't know what's best for me, but rather He does. What in the world? What kind of crazy person am I? What kind of person would need to be told that the Creator actually knows what He is talking about and should be listened to.

How could I as a Christian, as a human, as a creature ever have to be told this? Why shouldn't my ears be bent on my God? Is it because He can't be seen? Is it because I don't have enough faith? Is it because my belief isn't what it should be? I believe, Lord, help my unbelief!

Lord God, how foolish am I! How I run to my own ways, how I run to my own devices! How often I do not remember that you are a God who has only my best intentions in mind. How often do I forget that you loved me so much that you would send your Son to die for me. How can I not grasp that a God who would pay the ultimate price of not only condescending, but also dying, and then bearing a wrath so great, so unbearable for three hours on the cross! Oh, love
so amazing, love Divine, it demands my soul, my life, my all!

This amazing love, I ask, how can it be, that you my God should die for me? This love should compel me to service, worship, and ultimate obedience and the hanging on every word. I should say with the psalmist, who sums up in this verse in Psalm 19:10-11 as this:


More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.

Oh, Lord, may your Spirit flood me today with love for you, with a passion for every word you speak. May my ears be tuned to you, may my heart be open. Let me show the love of Christ to all that I meet, and let me hang on your every word. Let your words be sweet to me! In Christ, Amen.