LEARNING DAILY

 

Isaiah 26:8-9, Yes, Lord, walking in the way of Your laws, we wait for you; Your name and renown are the desires of our hearts. My soul yearns for You in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for You. When Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world will learn righteousness. (New International Version)

 

I have read that Isaiah’s words above can be compared to the cries of the martyrs in The Revelation 6:10, “And they cried with a loud voice, saying, ‘How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?’”  Both Isaiah and the martyrs, those who have become Believers in Jesus Christ and were killed because of it, are waiting and earnestly wanting God to deal in His justice with those who have chosen to walk in ungodliness with the world. The righteous and faithful followers of Jesus Christ should long and pray for the day the trumpet of the Lord sounds and call them to meet Him in the clouds that they might be with Him for eternity. Isaiah’s heart so desired to be with the Lord and for His judgments to begin so the unrighteous would learn what justice and righteousness are. Should that not be the desire of every Believer today and that the Lord would reign in His glory forever and forever?!

 

 

My heart is heavy this morning from some thoughts I have read today. In my devotions, I have been reading what God has said through His prophets concerning His disgust (and that is a mild description) of His people being so slack in their worship of Him. Obviously, God hates that His people have walked in the ways of the nations around them by worshipping idols. The prophet Ezekiel has even written that God took him to Jerusalem to show him the idolatry in the temple and shown him what He was going to do to punish the idolaters and corrupt leaders. In addition, I read some crazy statistics about how few who have said they have been “born again” actually do not follow Christ or the teaching in His Word and that is centered around their own admission. Is that really true? Is it really true that few earnestly long for the Lord as Isaiah did – “My soul yearns for You in the night; in the morning my spirit longs for You.” Go back and read what the Lord said to the church of Laodicea regarding being “lukewarm”. He is going to “vomit the lukewarm out of His mouth”.

 

The reason for God’s judgment is so “the people of the world will learn righteousness” – God’s righteousness. The coming judgments of God on this earth have been spoken of for thousands of years. It is coming! The One coming to judge the nations is Jesus Christ. May each of us be a part of the faithful and diligent followers of Jesus Christ who long for Him to come day and night. May we be counted in that small percentage that diligently seek Him, search the Scriptures in order to walk the narrow way into His kingdom. Few are on that road according to the Lord Jesus. May we never grow tired of being in His Word and seeking to be like Him by the renewing of our mind and presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to Him (Romans 12:1-2). May it be each of our desire to be filled with His glory that others might see His great love and that He is our only hope!