🥰 Shalom everyone in Blurt!
I am extremely grateful to the Lord Jesus Christ for this wonderful new day and His close presence!
My heart is filled with great joy when the Lord allows me to enjoy the fruits of my labor. Indeed, when I see that my labor was not in vain but brought good results, it is like tasting the juicy honeyed fruit of a persimmon tree. Just as the body is satiated with food, so the soul is satiated with the fruits of the Lord. I realize that it is all God's grace and not my own merit, because everything I have is from the Lord.
And although this earthly life is very short compared to eternity, how good it is when it is lived according to the will of God, which was originally conceived for you. Even when God wanted to bring me to the desert, this empty and dried up land became a blossoming and fruitful garden in my life. A spring came out of the rock and everything around me blossomed like Aaron's staff! In my life, what is written in Isaiah 43 has been fulfilled over and over again. The words of God that are written there are healing oil for my heart, strengthening for my spirit and body!
Today I will share this chapter with you here, so that your hearts may be strengthened by the realization of the Omnipotence of God Who created us, His immeasurable love for His creation, and God's desire to have a close relationship with us. Be blessed and may the peace of God and the truth guard you!
Isaiah 43:1-28
But now thus says the LORD, he that created you, O Jacob, and he that formed you, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon you. For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior: I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in exchange for you. Because you were precious in my sight, and honourable, and I have loved you, I will give men for you, and nations in exchange for your life. Fear not: for I am with you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west. I will say to the north, Give it up; and to the south, Do not withhold it: Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth, everyone who is called by my name, whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed and fashioned. Bring out the blind people, though they have eyes, and the deaf, though they have ears. Let all the nations be gathered together, and the peoples assembled. Who among them has declared this? Let them declare what was from the beginning; let them bring forth their witnesses, and be justified; that it may be heard and said, It is true. For you are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me. I, even I, the Lord, and besides me there is no savior. I have declared, and saved, and declared, and there is no other among you. And you are my witnesses, says the Lord, that I am God. I am he from of old; and there is none who can deliver out of my hand. I have done, and who can undo it? Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sakes I have sent to Babylon, and have broken in pieces all the bars, and the Chaldeans, whose glory is in ships. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Maker of Israel, your King. Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, who brings forth chariots and horses, army and strength; they lie down together, they rise not; they are extinguished like a lamp, they are quenched. Yet do ye not remember the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I do a new thing, now it shall appear; will ye not know it? I will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. The beasts of the field shall praise me, the dragons and the ostriches: for I will give water in the desert, rivers in the dry wilderness, to give drink to my chosen people. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise. But thou, O Jacob, hast not cried unto me; thou, O Israel, hast not laboured for me. Thou hast not brought me thy lambs for a burnt offering, neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not made thee minister unto me with a grain offering, neither have I wearied thee with incense. Thou hast not bought me sweet cane with money, neither hast thou satisfied me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast burdened me with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thy iniquities. I, even I, am he that blot out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins: remember me; let us contend; speak, that thou mayest be justified. Thy forefather hath sinned, and thy mediators have transgressed against me. Therefore have I profaned the priesthood of the priesthood, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproach.
JESUS IS LORD! YES AND AMEN!