For the month, we invite you to read and meditate on Isaiah 55
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy, and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and you will delight in the richest of fare.
3 Give ear and come to me;
listen, that you may live.
I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
my faithful love promised to David…
6 Seek the LORD while he may be found;
call on him while he is near.
7 Let the wicked forsake their ways
and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the LORD.
9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 As the rain and the snow
come down from heaven,
and do not return to it
without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty,
but will accomplish what I desire
and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
God is calling out. Ask Him for discernment as to where He is:
- Inviting you to be satisfied in Him? (vv.1-2)
- Showing you what will not satisfy? (v.2)
- Asking you to seek Him? (vv.3 &6)
- Calling you to let go of sin and to take hold of His mercy and forgiveness? (v.7)
- Reminding you that he is at work, though circumstances seem otherwise? (vv. 8-9)
- Reminding you His Word is powerful and that He has purposes to accomplish in your life as read it. (v.10-11)
- What else is God saying as you read?
