JOY!
Reading Isaiah 41
This chapter spends some time talking about the idols of the nations. It asks if they have ever successfully predicted the future. Since God is the author of all history, He has foretold what would happen.
In my moments of disbelief, what do I turn to for predictions of the future?
The news, politics and elections. Sometimes I adopt a posture of, "If I go to church, and put money in the offering plate, and pray regularly, then God has to protect me and my family."
What I really need is to trust the God who made me and loves me. He has a plan for me and my family through the good times and the bad.
This chapter also describes how God will turn dry and barren land into rich, abundant land flowing with streams. It made me think of the lives of some of my friends. They were unbelievers. Now they are in love with the Lord, and they overflow with life giving actions and words. I do not have dramatic conversion story, but I can see even in my own life that God continues to mature me so that I can be more like a green land that refreshes.
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