A RESTORING GOD

Isaiah 41:18  "I will open rivers in desolate heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water."

The Lord will take the plain and the lowly, the ones seen as insignificant by the world, or the fallen men and women of God who society has shunned; those brought low by their sins and mistakes, by circumstances of which sometimes they had no control.  He will restore and lift up.  He will take and flow through them like rivers in a desert, like rain in a drought.

The words of God will come flowing out of stammering mouths, healings will be released from old wrinkled hands and from the mouths of His children will flow His words of salvation and forgiveness.  Who better to be used by God than His children that have fallen, that have had sin puncture their hearts, to tell of God's great mercy, His grace and forgiveness, His great love.  Those that have never been down the road of deception by the enemy, who have not falled prey to the constant badgering of the voices that keep telling them it is too late.....and know that it is never too late with God, never too late to fall at His feet, repetitive of their sins and be restored.  These battle scared children of God can testify to the Lord's tender mercies.

God will use the least to be His spokesperson and those who think they are great, He will bring low.  He will use the true and faithful in heart to witness to His children.  No matter what has occurred in their past, it is forgiven and the Lord will use all for His glory. Theirs will no more be poor in spirit for the Lord's spirit will flow through those that truly love and seek Him.

God is a restorer.  That is why Jesus came, a sacrifice to take our sin so we could once again come to the Father, to be with Him as His own, unashamed of our past mistakes, totally restored to Him.  He became a bridge between us and the Father, connecting us where before was desolation, wilderness, a dry land.  Restoration, precious reunion with the Father, His river of life once again flowing through all of us that truly have learned the grace, the mercy, the restoration and the precious love of God.

03-23-12