See Isaiah, Chapters 49, 53 and 54
When we turn our back on the Lord and choose not to behold His face,
He is still there with perpetual kindness, tender mercies, love and grace.
For a season it may appear that He has left us alone or forsaken.
This may be a time needed for us to work things out before His welcome intervention.
He knows the right way to help and when to intercede,
just as a patient parent when a child is learning new things.
He never subverts our will or our agency,
but He lights our way to a better solution or possibility.
God wants us to do everything we can before He steps in.
That is the way we will learn how to make better decisions and grow within.
Of course He is disappointed when we don’t do as He asks,
but there is no angry retribution for our unrighteous acts.
His kindness shall not depart from us - we are graven upon the palms of His hands.
It is His work and glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
His kindness is everlasting and His desire to save us is infinite.
The elements may fade away but His benevolence will remain constant.
We can be bound to Him in an enduring covenant, like a loving husband and wife.
In this way we will find a full measure of happiness and be free from worldly strife.
Christ has borne our grief and iniquities, carried our sorrows and afflictions.
We esteem Him as one who was stricken, wounded for our transgressions.
As sheep that have left the fold, we have all gone astray.
Often we have turned from Him and gone our own way.
He is willing to succor us, embrace us and be our shield.
With His stripes, we are healed.
Our sins can be blotted out and our garments made pure white
if we repent and seek forgiveness and redemption through the atonement of Christ.
January 2023
Isaiah 53: 3-6 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with
his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 54: 5-10 For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called. For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Isaiah 49: 13-16 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted. But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
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