Become aware of the Lord present to you, looking on you with love, desiring to speak to your heart?
Read Isaiah 55:1-13 (found at the end of this post)
Now read it again, aloud, aware of your senses.
Notice what word or phrase calls to you? Sit with that word or phrase.
Some thoughts:
“Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters…”
What is it you are thirsting for? Meaning, love, closeness with the Lord? Allow the Lord to hear your thirst.
“Come, buy…without money and without price”
These are words of pure invitation…all are welcome…all we need is to come
“Why do you spend…your labor for that which does not satisfy?”
Fear, confusion, efforts….
Again, I hear the word, “come”
Everlasting covenant, steadfast love…a bond of belonging and a love that will never fail…
What word most spoke to your heart?
What touched your heart?
What did you sense the Lord saying to you?
1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
hear me, that your soul may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David.
4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander of the peoples.
5 Surely you will summon nations you know not,
and nations that do not know you will hasten to you,
because of the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
for he has endowed you with splendor."
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake his way
and the evil man his thoughts.
Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,"
declares the LORD.
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
12 You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the pine tree,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be for the LORD's renown,
for an everlasting sign,
which will not be destroyed."
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