Isaiah 62:1-5
Regarding Zion, I can’t keep my mouth shut, regarding Jerusalem, I can’t hold my tongue, Until her righteousness blazes down like the sun and her salvation flames up like a torch. Foreign countries will see your righteousness, and world leaders your glory.
You’ll get a brand-new name straight from the mouth of God.
You’ll be a stunning crown in the palm of God’s hand, a jeweled gold cup held high in the hand of your God. No more will anyone call you Rejected, and your country will no more be called Ruined.
You’ll be called Hephzibah (My Delight),
Because God delights in you
and your land will be like a wedding celebration. For as a young man marries his virgin bride, so your builder marries you,
And as a bridegroom is happy in his bride, so your God is happy with you.
I don't know why I always have to come back to this one truth. For some reason it is one of the hardest things for me to grasp. Just how much God loves me and is simply happy with me.
How many times will he have to hit this same stubborn nail until it goes down?
The past couple of weeks have been sort of emotional, hard, and empty. It feels like God pressed the pause button on my life. Which is annoying because I like when a pace is set that I can stick to.I don't like this up and down, run then walk stuff.
Well, God slowed things down and I think it's because he's resetting my focus, (a good thing cuz it just means that we'll get to run again soon). This past weekend I told him I was going to stop fighting him, I wasn't going to try and run when he wanted to walk, and I was just going to let him meet me where I was at.
I decided not to do anything.
I let go of my agenda of getting from point A to B by my means and my strength. I didn't have the strength anyways. I stopped running laps in his embrace and just rested.
God does this thing where he shows me sunflowers to remind me of how much he loves me. It always happens at the perfect time, catches me off guard, and takes my breath away. Well it didn't make sense to me how in the middle of this funk he began flooding me with sunflowers. So so many. Over and over. All day long. And here I am throwing a pity party, wondering why things are the way they are and not understanding what God is doing.
He began reminding me that he doesn't really care about any of that stuff, he just wants me. He just wants me to focus on him, know that I'm his BELOVED daughter, and know that he is crazy about me. I don't have to do anything. It's such a common thing, we hear it all the time. He loves us.
But O man, sometimes that nail gets hit just right and drives in so deep it manages to
push all my false beliefs, fear, and shame out of the way.
push all my false beliefs, fear, and shame out of the way.
Right now he is so happy with you.
Right now he delights in you.
Right now he loves you so much, more than you can even wrap your head around.
You can’t escape him.
That is what matters.
What truth does God seem to always bring you back to? Press in to that, let the roots grow.
