December 2, 2017 Saturday

7   Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned.  Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see. 8 Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege. 9 If the LORD of Heaven’s Armies had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out like Sodom, destroyed like Gomorrah.  Isaiah 1:7-9 NLT

We sit in the ruins of our lives, families, communities and world proudly declaring that we are well and have no need for help, especially from God!            Our pride only makes things worse because we cannot see our need and so will not ask for help.  Indeed our pride goes before our fall!

            And we are under siege!  Is it from foreign powers?  Is it from our enemies?  NO, we are under siege by the “LORD of Heaven’s Armies” as He seeks to gain entry to our hearts and lives and to destroy the sin in our lives as He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah!

            But we keep God out and we bar Him out of our lives, our families and our world.  Indeed it is OUR life, OUR family and OUR world!  God has no right to tell us what to do and to take away our right to sit in our ash heap and gather our shattered dreams and hopes around us we shout! 

            And so we sit in our ruins, our burned out lives, our plundered dreams and see our destroyed communities as good and beautiful!  We turn from the Light that seems so bright and return to our safe and comfortable darkness.

            And hope is squandered, faith has no ground to grow and there is no fruit to help renew our family and our world.  WE ARE HELPLESS because we turned away from help!

            Is there any hope?

            This is the day that My Love has made and despite the pain, weariness and the loss I will rejoice and be glad in Him!  I will thank God for all that I go through even though today was so hard and so hard to hold onto My Love.  I wandered in pity but My Love rescued me from myself.  And after I reached up to My Love and cried out for help I got a call from Betzaida Shands and My Love rejoiced at my joy!