10/09/2024
After the armies of Rome left Israel in ruins, and as far as the eye could see, it had been laid waste..... In the ages since then it was said that God was finished with the Jewish people.... but that was not so....the words of the prophets recorded a promise: In the latter days God would gather the Jewish people from the ends of the earth back to the land of Israel. And when they returned there, it was prophesied that they would 'rebuild the ancient ruins. They would raise up the former desolations, and they would repair the ruined cities, the desolations of many generations' the words of the ancient prophets have come true .... Isaiah 61:4 - the Jewish people were gathered back from the nation's to their ancient homeland and once there, they began rebuilding the ancient cities and repairing the ancient ruins.
What does this reveal?
That the Word of God is true and something else.....
After centuries of rebellion, it would seem to have been easier for God to have ended His dealings with them and to have chosen another people..... BUT He chose instead to restore the destroyed, rebuild the ruins and raise up His fallen nation.
He chose to heal the broken, to take the scattered pieces of His fallen nation and put them back together, one by one, piece by broken piece.....
WHY?
It's because when you love something, and that something breaks, you don't abandon it, you put it back together piece by piece..... So with the nation Israel.....and so with us.
Israel is a sign to all people, a picture of God's redemption for all who will receive it.
What is that redemption?
It's the restoring of what was broken.
He doesn't abandon us in our sins.
He doesn't give up on us in our fallen and broken state.
Instead, He rebuilds the ruins.
He takes the broken pieces of our lives, of our mistakes and puts them back together, piece by piece.
And as God has done for us, so we must do the same to those who are fallen and to that which is broken..... for when you love something and it breaks.....you don't abandon it, you put it back together..... piece by piece.
Is there a something or a someone that's broken that you've abandoned or given up on? Pray for their redemption and, if you can, put it back together in God's love.....
Amos 9:14 and Luke 4:18 and then Acts 15:16-17..... Let's walk in the love of Christ our Saviour and our redeemer..... Amen
Woohoo, celebrate and eat cake... there is ALWAYS HOPE and a way to NEW LIFE....through Jesus who ransomed us ###
