July 28th, 21

Are you thirsty? Are you hungry? Then come to God. Don't come in ignorance with a sense of doom. Fearing what you'll hear him say, instead, come with your ears wide open. Because what you'll hear are God's words of love, a love that will never fail. Isaiah 55:3 says, come to me with your ears wide open, listen and you will find life. I will make an everlasting covenant with you. I will give you all the unfailing love I promised to David. See how rich and generous the gifts of God are, for the hungry and thirsty, the broken. It's beyond what we can imagine. We close our ears to God because we fear we fear his words of judgment and rejection. But Isaiah says to open them wide, verses 7 and 9, yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously. for justice, the heavens are higher than the Earth. So my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts. His thoughts are far beyond our thoughts or anything we could ever imagine. And the generous food that he gives to the hungry, that opens eyes and minds to his heart, in his ways, is His Word. Isaiah 55:11 says, It is the same with my word. I send it out. And it always produces fruit, it will always accomplish all I want it to and it will prosper everywhere I send it. All of this is an everlasting sign of his power and his love. So look up thirsty one and see what God has done. He has sent the final word, his son, open your ears wide in here God's answer to your thirst, your hunger, your brokenness. It's Jesus, the living word. So come with your ears wide open. Listen, and you will find life. That's the prayer that I have for my own heart. For my own soul. That's a prayer that I have for my family for my wife, my daughters and my son. That's the prayer that I have for you may be so

You are loved!