I was out in my yard again yesterday. The day before, I was in the back yard, looking at an old glider. When I had purchased it, I had visions of rocking and singing grand babies to sleep in it. Seven years latter, there are still are no grandchildren and the glider which was covered in a plastic weave is very brittle and broken down. In fact it would scratch your legs, and make your hinnie stink if you sat on it now. Two days ago, I had determined we'd have to throw it away.
But as I looked at it yesterday, a vision of how it could look danced in my head. So, Mark and I carried it to the back porch where I began taking it apart. The duct tape I used to help some of it stay together a year or two ago, was still in tact, but the majority of it was a mess.
Isn't that like our lives? We try to fix things with duct tape, or something that will piece things together temporarily. Ultimately, we look again and life is so tattered we're ready to give up. Temporary fixes never really work, do they?
Just like America, the stimulus package really can't stimulate the economy to the point of restored economic health we need. Only Jesus can turn each of us around and correct our nation one person at a time for a full recovery. Health, wealth and abundance starts with you and I finding what we really need in Jesus.
"For Zion sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet, till her righteousness shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch." Isaiah 62:1 (NIV)
"No longer will they call you Deserted, or your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the Lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married."
Isaiah 62:4 (NIV)
"You who call on the Lord, Give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth." Isaiah 62: 6 & 7 (NIV)
PS. That doesn't mean making Jerusalem the capital of Palestine either. God calls Israel His Land. We need to keep it that way, or suffer the consequences of God's promised wrath to all nations who do not bless Israel.
God said, I will Bless them that bless Israel and Curse them that curse Israel. He Always Keeps His Word.
