April 26, 2007

• God Our Teacher

  Isaiah 30:18-22 says, "Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you.  For the LORD is a God of justice; how blessed are all those who long for Him.  O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.  Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.  Your ears will hear a word behind you, 'This is the way, walk in it,' whenever you turn to the right or to the left.  And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold you will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, 'Be gone!'" (NASB)

  The LORD our God is a very gracious Teacher.  Even though the Israelites were given bread of privation and water of oppression by their Teacher, He is still in their midst.  He is their to pick them up when they fall and show them the right way to walk.  It is the same for all of us today whether you are lost are in Christ.  God wants us to listen to our Teacher.  Our Teacher will guide us in our walk and show us what we need to do to keep our walk good in His sight.  The LORD our God, our Teacher longs to be gracious to us and sits in heaven waiting for us to come to Him so that He can show compassion.  According to Isaiah, if we are long for Him our Teacher then surely we are blessed for His mercy and grace will be poured out on us.  When we cry in our desperation and trouble He never fails in hearing or answering us.  This is how great our Teacher is; He loves us so much that He doesn't want us to fail in our walk before Him.  So, instead of just leaving us just the way we are, He helps us by guiding our steps ("Your ears will hear a word behind you, 'This is the way, walk in it' whenevery you turn to the right or to the left.") and keeping us from defiling ourselves; He does this by showing us where our priorities are not right and straigtening up those priorities ("And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold you will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, 'Be gone!'").

  TRUST IN YOUR GRACIOUS TEACHER TO HELP YOU TO WALK THE WALK!

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