I've been thinking about this today...
But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me; my Lord has forgotten me." "Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you. Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.
(Isaiah 49:14-16 ESV)
What greater love, compassion, attention, and care can we witness in the world around us today than that of a mother with her infant? While even some mothers do neglect their children, the LORD has not and will not abandon us; Christ will not abandon the church, his bride. Do we deserve this? Nope. We deserve abandonment. I certainly do.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
(Isaiah 55:9 ESV)
Praise God!
1 jabberwocks:
How cool was it that this very passage played an important role in God's message to His people at Lakleand this morning?
I think sometimes when I think about being in God's hand, I simply think of Him holding my life and ignore the fact that He only holds me because my name is carved there. It took a frightful, violent act to cleanse my life of all impurity. Otherwise, God's holiness kept me from drawing near.
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