“All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations— a people who continually provoke me to my very face.” (Isaiah 65:2–3, NIV 1984).
My Musings – The hands are there, we need only to reach out and take hold of them. But we took those hands and nailed them to a cross. Then we walked away from Him, “in ways not good.” Why would this not provoke Him?
My Advice – “How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! Look, your house is left to you desolate.” (Luke 13:34–35, NIV 1984). Why would He not leave us desolated?
Yet, if we do not provoke Him by “[walking] in ways not good, pursuing [our] own imaginations,” He will not leave us desolated. All we need to do is reach out to take hold of the hands held out. If we do, He will gather us “under [His] wings.” There our own “imaginations” cannot begin to compare with what He has in store for us.
“As it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him'” (1 Corinthians 2:9, NIV 1984).
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