This passage from Isaiah 55 is an urgent call to come to or to return to the Lord and to be restored to a right relationship with God. The people, evidently, were complacent and settled in their worldliness and wickedness, like some of us may be today. So, God asks us why we waste our money and energies on what will never satisfy us. He counsels us to come to him, and to receive his living water welling up in us unto eternal life, i.e. the Spirit of God, or else to receive spiritual refreshment and renewal.
The call is urgent, because
we never know if we have tomorrow. We must turn from our sins, and turn to God
via faith in Jesus Christ. God’s word will be fulfilled. He will pardon our
sins when we turn from our wickedness, and we experience his grace and mercy.
Then he will restore us and will bless us with great spiritual blessings. The
return to God will be accompanied by much joy and peace, and it will produce
much spiritual fruitfulness to the glory of God.
Seek the Lord
An Original Work / July 20, 2012
Based off Isaiah 55
“Come to Me all you who
thirst; come to waters.
Listen to Me, and eat what’s
good today,
And your soul will delight in
richest of fare.
Give ear to Me, and you will
live.
I have made an eternal
covenant with you.
Wash in the blood of the
Lamb.”
Seek the Lord while He may be
found; call on Him.
Let the wicked forsake his
way, in truth.
Let him turn to the Lord, and
he will receive mercy.
Freely, God pardons him.
“For My thoughts are not your
thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,”
declares the Lord, our God.
“My word that goes out of My
mouth is truthful.
It will not return to Me
unfulfilled.
My word will accomplish all
that I desire,
And achieve the goal I
intend.
You will go in joy and be led
forth in peace.
The mountains will burst into
song… before you,
And all of the trees clap
their hands.”
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