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your revealing – showing your will and desire – we have looked and waited on
Lord, God. As we have struggle and suffer we wait on you. All night long my
soul wants you; my spirit seeks you. Because your arrival will bring the world
to right-living. (Isaiah 26:8-9)
Augustine said, “You (God) have made us for
yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” Do you now
recognize this in your life; that your proper role in life is to be that part
of God’s story which He made you to fulfill? Do you live in that reality,
explaining life to your people in those terms, and encouraging them to find
their place in God’s plan – their story?
Isaiah has relayed God’s promise to His
people. He explained that God’s day of judgment is coming. A day when he
reveals Himself to all mankind as God, making everything right and justice
becomes reality on the earth. Here, he explains the emptiness that each man and
woman feel when they are separated from God. Isaiah speaks of a knowing sense
in each person that longs for God, and that hasn’t changed. What has changed is
that Jesus’ atonement made it possible for men and women to relate to God
again. God will show you your part of His story. He will make clear to you the
role you are to play in that story.
Learn your story. Live in and teach from
that place and encourage your people to join you in it.
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