You don’t have to understand
Isaiah 55:1-3 “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food. 3 Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David. (ESV)
Isaiah 55 is a great place to go for an encouraging word from God. It is a great place to go to see the invitation that God gives to all to join Him. It shows the promises he is making to all that will join him. He has prepared King David to lead his people, and God has made the promise to deliver a Messiah through the lineage of David to the people of Israel; known as the Davidic Covenant. God has promised to deliver the eternal King, and here in Isaiah is his invitation to all. In the context of this it is spoken to the Jews, but God’s invitation is to all who will hear and respond. Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
Isaiah 55 is a great place to go for an encouraging word when you just don’t understand what is going on in your life. You begin to question the events, the unanswered prayers, the tribulations, all that you experience and begin to question God. Isaiah 55:8-9 are a bedrock of my faith; 8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” In my DNA I am one of those guys that “thinks things to death”. As a business owner I am a planner; as a child of God I seek to understand; as a failure my pride creeps in when I can’t. There is no part of me that can grip a minuscule amount of the Creator of the universe’s Sovereignty. But there is also a part of me that can rest in that when I seek to remain humble, and keep that sin of pride at bay, by seeking to remain close to God. In that abiding comes a minuscule amount of that understanding that I will not understand; peace is found there.
God is asking you to join him. God is asking you to rest in his hands that hold everything in their grasp. God is asking you to quit worrying about everything and rest in that knowledge that he has control of it all. There is a strength and peace that resides in the heart of a disciple that this world cannot steal away. Even in my struggles with anxiety, I press in to God for the strength to fight the enemy. I know that anxiety is rooted in fear, and fear is not from God. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. There is a quiet strength found in knowing that you will never understand how God works; but there is strength and peace that if He can breath a star into existence, the details of my life define simplicity.
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