Sunday, August 17, 2008

some cool verses

Just read this in Isaiah 58:6-
"Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share our food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter-when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I."

A few comments from me:
We will shine like the dawn when we do those things - essentially when we serve the "Least of these." I get that. But the verse also says that when we do those things "your healing will quickly appear." Hmmm. Back the the healing questions. Was this just for the Israelites? What kind of healing?

Sometimes it feels as though the LORD is silent. Sometimes He is. That is why it is so great when the LORD says to us "Here am I."

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