68 Isaiah 55:6,7 Don't Stop at Love
JMD Devotional 68 Isaiah 55:6,7 Don't Stop at Love
Seek, inquire for, and require the Lord while He may
be found [claiming Him by necessity and by right];
call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake
his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let
him return to the Lord, and He will have love, pity,
and mercy for him, and to our God, for He will
multiply to him His abundant pardon.
About 500 years in the future, the 'Rich Young Ruler'
would seek the key to eternal life from Jesus. He
naively thought he was keeping the Law of Moses, and
Jesus loved him for his earnest yearning to be right
with God. But when his sin was pointed out (his loving
his material things more than God), the man turned
away sad because of the hold those things had over
him. He couldn't let go, he wouldn't repent, he was
not about to change his way of life; so Jesus could
not have pity on him and impart mercy. The process was
incomplete. Don't stop at love, love can be one-sided
and unreciprocated. Love is NOT all you need!
Dear God,
May nothing block your abundant pardon and my
salvation. May there be no disconnects between your
love, pity and mercy for me; may your redemption of my
life be made complete. Help me to respond properly to
your grace. Please give me the power and the will to
respond whole-heartedly to your Holy influence that
this life might please You.
Amen
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Seek, inquire for, and require the Lord while He may
be found [claiming Him by necessity and by right];
call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake
his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let
him return to the Lord, and He will have love, pity,
and mercy for him, and to our God, for He will
multiply to him His abundant pardon.
About 500 years in the future, the 'Rich Young Ruler'
would seek the key to eternal life from Jesus. He
naively thought he was keeping the Law of Moses, and
Jesus loved him for his earnest yearning to be right
with God. But when his sin was pointed out (his loving
his material things more than God), the man turned
away sad because of the hold those things had over
him. He couldn't let go, he wouldn't repent, he was
not about to change his way of life; so Jesus could
not have pity on him and impart mercy. The process was
incomplete. Don't stop at love, love can be one-sided
and unreciprocated. Love is NOT all you need!
Dear God,
May nothing block your abundant pardon and my
salvation. May there be no disconnects between your
love, pity and mercy for me; may your redemption of my
life be made complete. Help me to respond properly to
your grace. Please give me the power and the will to
respond whole-heartedly to your Holy influence that
this life might please You.
Amen
All (but*) quotes are from The Amplified Bible, published by
the Lockman Foundation. (AMP)
Copyright © 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation
*New International Version (NIV)
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society
**Scripture taken from The Message. Copyright © 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. (Eugene Peterson's easy-to-read, contemporary Scripture translation)
If you know of someone who would like to subscribe to
my daily devotional, please forward.
jamesdinsmore_32907@yahoo.com
Short, concise, thought-provoking.
More features:
My Poetry
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(Some) of my Devotionals
http://recoverydevotional.blogspot.com/
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