Isaiah reminds us of the God we serve in chapter 35. He talks of God’s “glory” and calls God “awesome….and….majestic”. Do you spend time recognizing the power and glory of the God of our universe? Have you praised Him today? Is He sitting in the right place in your patch? On the throne, recognized as who He is? Well here is Isaiah’s news flash: “God is here, right here, on his way to put things right”. God is not somewhere out there. He is right here, right now. He is involved in our lives and in this world we live in, no matter how screwed up it may seem. He doesn’t make it that way, we do. But He doesn’t leave us alone either, even when we completely ignore Him and act like we don’t need or even want Him around. Lots of challenging lessons from the book “The Shack” around these kinds of thoughts – if you haven’t read it – you should.
But the exciting thing is how Isaiah describes the God we serve. And He is alive and active and doing the kind of things Isaiah describes here. Check it out. God will: “redress all wrongs….save you….blind eyes opened….deaf ears unstopped….lame men and women will leap….voiceless break into song….streams flow in the dessert….hot sands become cool….barren grasslands flourish”. That is the power of the God we serve. And it wasn’t just in Isaiah’s time. We serve the same God. He is just as much alive and part of our world as He was when Isaiah penned this chapter. He wants to be part of our lives, and He is, the question is do we recognize and acknowledge Him. We need to embrace God and put Him on the throne He belongs on. He is our God. He is in complete control. He is awesome and majestic and worthy of our praise!
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