Am empty bowl sits on the table.
Empty hearts. Fill us with Yourself.
What God shuts, none shall open.
Isaiah 22:22
The weakness of Judah is now exposed more than ever.
Isaiah 22:10 - They looked to their fortifications.
They knew their water was exactly right for the city.
But they did not show the same regard for the Glory of God in
the ways that they lived their lives. #gloryofman
Did they believe in another life after this one?
They lived in contempt of God.
"They did not depend on God for a blessing on their endeavors." M.Henry
"Every creature is to us what God makes it to be; and we must bless God for it,
and use it for Him." Not for our own gain. Not for our own glory.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote from a Nazi prison camp, awaiting his death:
"Who am I? This or the Other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow Another?
Am I both at once?
A hypocrite before others and
before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling?
Who am I?
They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God,
I am Thine."
PRAYER FROM PSALMS
Isaiah 22:1
A prayer from the Valley of Vision.
Where there once was the belief in God and His Power
but it has grown cold, blind, no taste.
Compassionate LORD,
Your mercies have brought me to Another Day.
Vain will be its gift unless I grow in Grace.
Let me this day know You as You are & love You supremely.
Through Grace let my will respond to You,
knowing that Power to obey is not in me,
but that Your Free Love Alone enables me to serve You.
Here, then, is my empty heart, overflow it with Thy choicest gifts.
My security comes from the Lord, I am His and He is mine without Him I am nothing. Sometimes I seem to try life on my own without really thinking I am not abiding in Him regarding this matter.
ReplyDeleteI have realized I have NOTHING absolutely NOTHING without Him...no faith, no joy, no strength, no endurance, no patience. If I do not really abide in Him daily, I am nothing and have nothing. Everything I have, is from Him. Yet, I still fail Him. Oh, how easily deceived I can be, His Grace is so amazing. It truly taught my heart to fear and then relieved my fear. Just heard a testimony this past week end...how His grace sought someone out and how he pulled over to the side of the road and cried and received Christ, even though he thought he knew Him. Discovered the truth and what he had been taught from a child was NOT the truth. It truly does set us free and we are captives to our flesh.I have walked with Him for a long time but I find that I am still growing and falling more in love with Him , He is so deep and is still revealing Himself to me. Oh, what a Savior.
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