Day 65
Part Two: Amos 1 - 9
Wow. I think the book of Amos could be about autism advocacy. It's about exploiting the poor and selling justice to the highest briber. Sounds exactly like what we battle against with Pharma and the Vaccine Industry.
And just like with the autism community, God is not using professionals and the highly esteemed to do this work, he is using a lowly farmer to deliver such powerful messages.
Again, just like the grass-roots advocacy of Warrior Mom's and Dad's in the Autism Community.
I love my Bible's commentary on Amos:
Amos boldly speaks God's words and denounces the sins of the people. His example is an excellent one for us today, encouraging us to speak up when we see injustice, to change our ways that conflict with God's ways, and to find hope in the knowledge that God will honor those who are willing to walk with him in righteousness.
I really like Amos. He urges people to do what is right and to reform society. Reform Pharma. Reform the vaccine industry.... I'm so tired of seeing complacency and silence. There are things worth fighting for and there are far too few warriors who will stand up and speak out and fight for them.
In Amos 2 the Lord says: "Because they have rejected the law of the Lord and have not kept his decrees, because they have been led astray by false gods.......... They sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals. They trample on the heads of the poor as upon the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed....... Now then, I will crush you as a cart crushes when loaded with grain. The swift will not escape, the strong will not muster their strength, and the warrior will not save his life. The archer will not stand his ground, the fleet-footed soldier will not get away.... Even the bravest warriors will flee naked on that day," declares the Lord.
Raise your hand if you want to see those responsible for the desolation of our children's health to flee naked!
Ha ha ha, I sure do! I know it's wrong to think that. But this book is about how corruption is going to stop one way or another. Prosperity at the expense of others is not a blessing. The Lord will level the playing field. God will punish those for exploiting our children's health for profit and selling lies to the highest bidder.
Amos 5:14 warns to "Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the Lord God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts.... Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!"
Oh how I long for such a famine of truth throughout the vaccine industry!
Amos 9:11 says, "The days are coming," declares the Sovereign Lord, "when I will send a famine through the land --- not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord."
"In that day I will restore David's fallen tent. I will repair its broken places, restore its ruins, and build it as it used to be...."
"The days are coming," declares the Lord, "when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman, and the planter by the one treading grapes. New wine will drip from the mountains and flow from all the hills. I will bring back my exiled people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit. I will plant Israel in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land I have given them," says the Lord your God.
Oh Brandon. Did you hear that? That day is coming...... We will win Brandon. The truth will prevail. One day...... One day soon.....
To HOPEISM....
Monday, January 27, 2014
Of locusts and a call for loyalty...
Day 65
Part One: Joel 1 - 3
An army of locusts and the prophecy of destruction.
Where Hosea was a book about the unfaithfulness of God's people, Joel is a book where God is calling for loyalty and committed relationship with Him. In a companion book to help me better understand the books of the Bible, I like this commentary that says, "Prophecy is more important for what it reveals about God than for what it reveals about the future. Fulfillment is sure, but the message is primary." Yes, the prophecy is a bit intimidating, but I'm more worried about getting my house in order before that judgement!
The message of Joel is to repent. That the day of judgement is to be feared, and that fear should motivate us to change our ways, repent, and respond to him wholeheartedly.
Joel 1:15 says, "For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty."
God holds the Nations responsible for how they treat his people. I think we as a Nation would do well to take that seriously. We will be held responsible for how we treat God's children. Each other. There will be such reckoning for those who have harmed our innocent vaccine-damaged children for nothing more than profit. I just long for the day of that repentance. For them to acknowledge the harm done, and stop doing it.
But, I digress......
In those times I need to remember the words of the Lord in Joel 2:13 and "Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love...."
For all that has been taken from my son by autism I must remember the words of Joel 2:25 that promise, "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten........"
Through it all I must "Praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you...."
God truly has worked wonders. Today, a Monday of all days, it's been hard to see that. I've let satan steal my thoughts and all I can think of are the unanswered prayers of the last three years. All I can think of are the seizures my son is having today. All I can think of is how many times I've had my hopes up, only to have them shot down in disappointment.
I need to remember more than any prophecy of the future, the right here and right now God I love tells me in Joel 2:27, 28, 32 that "I am the Lord your God."
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Joel 3:16
"But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel."
I need that refuge today.
I need the Lord's stranglehold on satan.
(And his stronghold on me...)
Part One: Joel 1 - 3
An army of locusts and the prophecy of destruction.
Where Hosea was a book about the unfaithfulness of God's people, Joel is a book where God is calling for loyalty and committed relationship with Him. In a companion book to help me better understand the books of the Bible, I like this commentary that says, "Prophecy is more important for what it reveals about God than for what it reveals about the future. Fulfillment is sure, but the message is primary." Yes, the prophecy is a bit intimidating, but I'm more worried about getting my house in order before that judgement!
The message of Joel is to repent. That the day of judgement is to be feared, and that fear should motivate us to change our ways, repent, and respond to him wholeheartedly.
Joel 1:15 says, "For the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty."
God holds the Nations responsible for how they treat his people. I think we as a Nation would do well to take that seriously. We will be held responsible for how we treat God's children. Each other. There will be such reckoning for those who have harmed our innocent vaccine-damaged children for nothing more than profit. I just long for the day of that repentance. For them to acknowledge the harm done, and stop doing it.
But, I digress......
In those times I need to remember the words of the Lord in Joel 2:13 and "Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love...."
For all that has been taken from my son by autism I must remember the words of Joel 2:25 that promise, "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten........"
Through it all I must "Praise the name of the Lord your God, who has worked wonders for you...."
God truly has worked wonders. Today, a Monday of all days, it's been hard to see that. I've let satan steal my thoughts and all I can think of are the unanswered prayers of the last three years. All I can think of are the seizures my son is having today. All I can think of is how many times I've had my hopes up, only to have them shot down in disappointment.
I need to remember more than any prophecy of the future, the right here and right now God I love tells me in Joel 2:27, 28, 32 that "I am the Lord your God."
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
"Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
Joel 3:16
"But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel."
I need that refuge today.
I need the Lord's stranglehold on satan.
(And his stronghold on me...)
Of Unfaithful people and Unending idols
Day 64
Hosea 1 - 14
Spiritual adultery, foreign Gods, and idols unending seem to be the theme. Honestly, I sit here and think, "How dumb can they be" with all their foreign Gods and idols and refusal to just obey. God has said, "Just Don't Do It" for like a million pages now. Yet they still do. And then I think, "Am I that dumb" too with my idols, the things or people in my life that I place before God?
Is my God just one god in a gallery of gods in my life? Autism, Facebook, Autism, anything but God? I would never even consider adultery against my husband, but yet by having other idols in my life, that's what I'm doing to God. Egads.... The book of Hosea says spiritual polygamy is nothing but adultery. God loves us as we love our children. No matter what sins they commit, we still love them unconditionally. Yet there is a punishment that must occur as we wait with HOPEISM that our prodigal children will return to us. To obedience.
My God telling Hosea to marry Gomer, an unfaithful, adulterous wife, He is letting us know what it's like for him and his covenant with the unfaithful people of Israel who continually defy his decrees of obedience.
Hosea 4:1-3 says, Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: "There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed."
That sounds familiar in this day and age, sadly.
Hosea 4:12 goes on, "....They consult a wooden idol and are answered by a stick of wood. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God."
One thing I can say in my favor, is that I have come to the realization that man's medicine and physicians are no longer my idol. I have consulted them "as a wooden idol" and trust me, it was even less than "a stick of wood" that answered. That has been the most rewarding thing in the healing of my son. To not put those people above God. When most are even lower than a snake in their profit-seeking and their own refusal to think on their own.
I have to laugh at how many "wooden idol's" I have sought as greater than God. Self-help books, programs, methods, medicine, even the best intentioned and bestest of friends are not to be sought out first before seeking out God.
Hosea 6:1-3 says, "Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth."
In Hosea 13 and 14 I can just see myself saying some of those things to my son when he was young. The old, "I brought you into this world and I can take you out...." lecture.
Hosea 13:4
"But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out o Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me. I cared for you in the sesert, in the land of burning heat. When I fed them, they were satisfied......"
I know God isn't a snarky God, but I can so totally see Him wanting to smirk just a bit when he asks in Hosea 13:9, this question: "You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against me, against your helper. Where is your king, that he may save you? Where are your rulers in all your towns, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes'?"
Where is your fix-all book that will fix all for you? Where is your doctor who will cure what only I can? I just have to laugh. Truly, where are all those idols we put above God, when we need them? I guess just like in adultery, we run to others or to things or to new churches or new doctors to fix what only God can. We follow the latest and greatest and not the tried and true.
But alas, HOPEISM always shines and God is in the business of restoration for those who return and repent.
Hosea 14 says:
"Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God."
"....return to the Lord."
"Forgive all our sins..."
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them."
I love this line and sit here reminding myself of it as it applies to my own idols that I put before God...
Hosea 14:3
"We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made......"
I love how this book ends...
Hosea 14:9
"Who is wise? He will realize these things, Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them."
To walking with God and not stumbling with satan,
HOOYAH!
Hosea 1 - 14
Spiritual adultery, foreign Gods, and idols unending seem to be the theme. Honestly, I sit here and think, "How dumb can they be" with all their foreign Gods and idols and refusal to just obey. God has said, "Just Don't Do It" for like a million pages now. Yet they still do. And then I think, "Am I that dumb" too with my idols, the things or people in my life that I place before God?
Is my God just one god in a gallery of gods in my life? Autism, Facebook, Autism, anything but God? I would never even consider adultery against my husband, but yet by having other idols in my life, that's what I'm doing to God. Egads.... The book of Hosea says spiritual polygamy is nothing but adultery. God loves us as we love our children. No matter what sins they commit, we still love them unconditionally. Yet there is a punishment that must occur as we wait with HOPEISM that our prodigal children will return to us. To obedience.
My God telling Hosea to marry Gomer, an unfaithful, adulterous wife, He is letting us know what it's like for him and his covenant with the unfaithful people of Israel who continually defy his decrees of obedience.
Hosea 4:1-3 says, Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites, because the Lord has a charge to bring against you who live in the land: "There is no faithfulness, no love, no acknowledgment of God in the land. There is only cursing, lying and murder, stealing and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed."
That sounds familiar in this day and age, sadly.
Hosea 4:12 goes on, "....They consult a wooden idol and are answered by a stick of wood. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God."
One thing I can say in my favor, is that I have come to the realization that man's medicine and physicians are no longer my idol. I have consulted them "as a wooden idol" and trust me, it was even less than "a stick of wood" that answered. That has been the most rewarding thing in the healing of my son. To not put those people above God. When most are even lower than a snake in their profit-seeking and their own refusal to think on their own.
I have to laugh at how many "wooden idol's" I have sought as greater than God. Self-help books, programs, methods, medicine, even the best intentioned and bestest of friends are not to be sought out first before seeking out God.
Hosea 6:1-3 says, "Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence. Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth."
In Hosea 13 and 14 I can just see myself saying some of those things to my son when he was young. The old, "I brought you into this world and I can take you out...." lecture.
Hosea 13:4
"But I am the Lord your God, who brought you out o Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but me, no Savior except me. I cared for you in the sesert, in the land of burning heat. When I fed them, they were satisfied......"
I know God isn't a snarky God, but I can so totally see Him wanting to smirk just a bit when he asks in Hosea 13:9, this question: "You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against me, against your helper. Where is your king, that he may save you? Where are your rulers in all your towns, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes'?"
Where is your fix-all book that will fix all for you? Where is your doctor who will cure what only I can? I just have to laugh. Truly, where are all those idols we put above God, when we need them? I guess just like in adultery, we run to others or to things or to new churches or new doctors to fix what only God can. We follow the latest and greatest and not the tried and true.
But alas, HOPEISM always shines and God is in the business of restoration for those who return and repent.
Hosea 14 says:
"Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God."
"....return to the Lord."
"Forgive all our sins..."
"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger has turned away from them."
I love this line and sit here reminding myself of it as it applies to my own idols that I put before God...
Hosea 14:3
"We will never again say 'Our gods' to what our own hands have made......"
I love how this book ends...
Hosea 14:9
"Who is wise? He will realize these things, Who is discerning? He will understand them. The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them, but the rebellious stumble in them."
To walking with God and not stumbling with satan,
HOOYAH!
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
The Sovereign Savior who Saves...
Day 63
Daniel 1-12
I would love to be Daniel. Would love the ability to interpret dreams. To have such insight. But that's not the way it works, as is shared in Daniel 2:26 when the king asked Daniel, "Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?" Daniel replied, "no wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries...."
I have many mysteries I need revealed. Why such disappointment in things, such hardship, such unfairness. Such suffering in my son's seizures.
The book of Daniel partly answers that with sovereignty. Yahweh is a sovereign God. He is able to deliver us from anything, yet at times for reasons only HE knows, He chooses not to. And I just need to be humbled by that. How God is sovereign over kings, nations, empires, and yes, even autism. He is in control and there is purpose in all things He does, or doesn't do. In the book of Daniel that kingdom they were waiting for would take longer than expected. Kinda like the autism recovery and seizure healing that I have been waiting for for over a decade now. But in the meantime we must live out our faith, or HOPEISM, in the midst of an unbelieving world, trusting in God for deliverance and protection. For me in the case of "Life with Autism" -- I must live out my HOPEISM in the midst of defeat after defeat, setback after setback...... Trusting God for deliverance and protection.
I am encouraged by what Daniel 2:20 says:
"Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him....."
He is Sovereign...
In Daniel 6:26 --
"For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end. He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions."
God's sovereignty is such that He can, will, often does, rescue me and my son, as He rescued Daniel from the den of lions.
I love the story here in Daniel about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace... In Daniel 3:17 it says, "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it... But even if he does not...we will not serve your gods."
They were saved by God. In a blazing furnace and not a singed hair on their head. My son was helping a widow in our church one summer. Mowing and cutting down brush and limbs. He was doing his best as a teenager to serve in a way that he could. He had all that brush and grass and stumps and limbs in a huge pile to burn. He poured way too much gas on the pile and as he lit it, the wind picked up and a huge heat bubble engulfed him. From in the house, the widow said it sounded like a bomb was dropped in her yard. The heat in his face scared our son, rightly so, and when he came home and I saw his red face we immediately went to the Emergency Room. I was afraid blisters would form, scars, disfiguration, etc. But he checked out fine. Some singed hairs, but no blisters, no burns, no scars. Nothing. Like with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, -- there was most certainly an angel in that brush pile shielding him from the brunt of that heat bubble. The Sovereign God that could have allowed for him to be burned, had rescued and saved him. Performed signs and wonders for him to stand in amazement of that day.
I will always remember that miracle.
There are many times I've felt scorched by my son's seizures. Burned by autism. But that day when my son survived such an explosion, walking through the fiery furnace with not a burn, reminds me that there have been many more days that I haven't been burned. Many more times my son wasn't hurt by seizure falls than the times he was.
This book reminds me that obedience is rewarded. And even in the times it seems it isn't, I'll still be obedient anyway.......
I'll still obediently serve the Sovereign Savior who Saves.
There is such HOPEISM in that...
Daniel 1-12
I would love to be Daniel. Would love the ability to interpret dreams. To have such insight. But that's not the way it works, as is shared in Daniel 2:26 when the king asked Daniel, "Are you able to tell me what I saw in my dream and interpret it?" Daniel replied, "no wise man, enchanter, magician or diviner can explain to the king the mystery he has asked about, but there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries...."
I have many mysteries I need revealed. Why such disappointment in things, such hardship, such unfairness. Such suffering in my son's seizures.
The book of Daniel partly answers that with sovereignty. Yahweh is a sovereign God. He is able to deliver us from anything, yet at times for reasons only HE knows, He chooses not to. And I just need to be humbled by that. How God is sovereign over kings, nations, empires, and yes, even autism. He is in control and there is purpose in all things He does, or doesn't do. In the book of Daniel that kingdom they were waiting for would take longer than expected. Kinda like the autism recovery and seizure healing that I have been waiting for for over a decade now. But in the meantime we must live out our faith, or HOPEISM, in the midst of an unbelieving world, trusting in God for deliverance and protection. For me in the case of "Life with Autism" -- I must live out my HOPEISM in the midst of defeat after defeat, setback after setback...... Trusting God for deliverance and protection.
I am encouraged by what Daniel 2:20 says:
"Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him....."
He is Sovereign...
In Daniel 6:26 --
"For he is the living God and he endures forever; his kingdom will not be destroyed, his dominion will never end. He rescues and he saves; he performs signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth. He has rescued Daniel from the power of the lions."
God's sovereignty is such that He can, will, often does, rescue me and my son, as He rescued Daniel from the den of lions.
I love the story here in Daniel about Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace... In Daniel 3:17 it says, "If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it... But even if he does not...we will not serve your gods."
They were saved by God. In a blazing furnace and not a singed hair on their head. My son was helping a widow in our church one summer. Mowing and cutting down brush and limbs. He was doing his best as a teenager to serve in a way that he could. He had all that brush and grass and stumps and limbs in a huge pile to burn. He poured way too much gas on the pile and as he lit it, the wind picked up and a huge heat bubble engulfed him. From in the house, the widow said it sounded like a bomb was dropped in her yard. The heat in his face scared our son, rightly so, and when he came home and I saw his red face we immediately went to the Emergency Room. I was afraid blisters would form, scars, disfiguration, etc. But he checked out fine. Some singed hairs, but no blisters, no burns, no scars. Nothing. Like with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, -- there was most certainly an angel in that brush pile shielding him from the brunt of that heat bubble. The Sovereign God that could have allowed for him to be burned, had rescued and saved him. Performed signs and wonders for him to stand in amazement of that day.
I will always remember that miracle.
There are many times I've felt scorched by my son's seizures. Burned by autism. But that day when my son survived such an explosion, walking through the fiery furnace with not a burn, reminds me that there have been many more days that I haven't been burned. Many more times my son wasn't hurt by seizure falls than the times he was.
This book reminds me that obedience is rewarded. And even in the times it seems it isn't, I'll still be obedient anyway.......
I'll still obediently serve the Sovereign Savior who Saves.
There is such HOPEISM in that...
Friday, January 10, 2014
Renewed, Rebuilt, & Restored...
Day 62
Ezekiel 35 - 48
It's fitting that I'm on the last day's reading in Ezekiel this first week of January. A new year. Clean slate.
The people of Israel are experiencing that as this book ends. A rebirth. A new era. A clean slate. God has returned and will dwell among his people. He will be their sanctuary. Their Yahweh. To match the greatness of the destruction they experienced, even greater will be His glory than ever before.
Are you needing that this New Year? I know I am. I want that. I so desire it I can feel it. I want the past few years of seizure destruction to be restored to even greater health than Brandon has ever seen. I want the destruction of disappointments we've faced to be restored to even greater glory that what we could ever imagine.
I want that new heart - as God promises in Ezekiel 36:24
"I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all you impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh......you will be my people and I will be your God."
Ezekiel 36:33
"On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt."
Ezekiel 36:36
"Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate."
Ezekiel 39:27
"When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through them in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord."
I just love the timing in this. Beginning the New Year with such HOPEISM of restoration, renewal, rebuilding. The temple being rebuilt to grander glory and filled with an even greater Glory of the Lord Himself.
Ezekiel ends with these words:
"And the name of the city from that time on will be: The Lord is There."
Yes, He is there...
And I'm so thankful that for me, my husband, my son, my family -- for this New Year and for all our hopes and dreams for this New Year --- He's here too.
HOOYAH
&
HALLELUJAH
Ezekiel 35 - 48
It's fitting that I'm on the last day's reading in Ezekiel this first week of January. A new year. Clean slate.
The people of Israel are experiencing that as this book ends. A rebirth. A new era. A clean slate. God has returned and will dwell among his people. He will be their sanctuary. Their Yahweh. To match the greatness of the destruction they experienced, even greater will be His glory than ever before.
Are you needing that this New Year? I know I am. I want that. I so desire it I can feel it. I want the past few years of seizure destruction to be restored to even greater health than Brandon has ever seen. I want the destruction of disappointments we've faced to be restored to even greater glory that what we could ever imagine.
I want that new heart - as God promises in Ezekiel 36:24
"I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all you impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh......you will be my people and I will be your God."
Ezekiel 36:33
"On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt."
Ezekiel 36:36
"Then the nations around you that remain will know that I the Lord have rebuilt what was destroyed and have replanted what was desolate."
Ezekiel 39:27
"When I have brought them back from the nations and have gathered them from the countries of their enemies, I will show myself holy through them in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God, for though I sent them into exile among the nations, I will gather them to their own land, not leaving any behind. I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour out my Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Sovereign Lord."
I just love the timing in this. Beginning the New Year with such HOPEISM of restoration, renewal, rebuilding. The temple being rebuilt to grander glory and filled with an even greater Glory of the Lord Himself.
Ezekiel ends with these words:
"And the name of the city from that time on will be: The Lord is There."
Yes, He is there...
And I'm so thankful that for me, my husband, my son, my family -- for this New Year and for all our hopes and dreams for this New Year --- He's here too.
HOOYAH
&
HALLELUJAH
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