Thursday, July 12, 2018

Secure town and complacent

Isaiah 32:9-20
You women who are so complacent(自滿), rise up and listen to me. You daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say! In little more than a year you who feel secure will tremble; the grape harvest will fail, and the harvest of fruit will not come.
Though hail flattens the forest and the city is leveled completely.
The fortress will be abandoned, the noisy city deserted; till the Spirit is pured on us from on high, and the desert becomes a fertile field, and the fertile field seems like a forest. The Lord's justice will dwell in the desert, his righteousness live in the fertile field.
The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever. My people will live in peaceful dwelling places, in secure homes, in undisturbed places of rest.
How blessed you will be, sowing your seed by every stream, and letting your cattle and donkeys range free.
Speak directly to the women of Isaiah's day. They are living a life of careless ease, but those days are numbered. Let them mourn their loss.
Looks forward again to a time of lasting peace, justice and righteousness brought about by the working of God's Holy Spirit in his people. And creation itself feels the effect. When everyone does what is right, the land too revives.
Why?
Women of Jerusalem like the secure and lived so complacent, but the life was careless ease, those days are numbered, they will mourn their loss.
There is good news after the loss, God will pour his grace on us from high and the desert becomes a fertile field. People don't think it is possible, but God can make it.
The fruit of that righteousness will be peace. Keep walking on the righteousness.
How?
Blessed are those who wait for the Lord and walk on His righteousness way. God's home is really secure home.

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