Change. Pray. Go. November 3, 2008

Isaiah 62

²The nations will see your righteousness. Kings will be blinded by your glory. And the Lord will give you a new name.

Change.

Once again we see that we are called to be different so that people will see our righteousness in Christ. We don’t have to follow our old patterns because we have been given a new life and a new name, a new character. People should be able to watch us and interact with us and it should be abundantly clear to them that Christ is alive in us that they cannot live life until they have what we have.

³The Lord will hold you in his hands for all to see—a splendid crown in the hands of God. ⁴Never again will you be called the Godforsaken City

or the Desolate Land. Your new name will be the City of God’s Delight and the Bride of God, for the Lord delights in you and will claim you as his own.

 

⁶O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls, they will pray to

the Lord day and night for the fulfillment of his promises. Take no rest, all you who pray. ⁷Give the Lord no rest until he makes Jerusalem the

 object of praise throughout the earth.

Pray.

Just as Jerusalem needed prayer warriors, so do we. We need people in our lives that know our struggles and weaknesses so that they can pray for strength and keep us accountable. But we must also learn be available to do this for others as well. This is defiantly an area that I struggle with the most. I just can never seem to remember to pray regularly for those that I love.

⁸The Lord has sworn to Jerusalem by his strength: “I will never again hand you over to your enemies. Never again will foreign warriors come and take away your grain and wine.

 

 ¹⁰Go out! Prepare the highway for my people to return! Smooth out the

 road; pull out the boulders, raise a flag for all the nations to see.

Go.

Those of us who already know Jesus should be building a path with our lives that will lead others to the truth. We should work to remove those things and the questions that others have that would hinder them in finding the truth.

¹¹The Lord has sent this message to every land: “Tell the people of

Israel, ‘Look, your Savior is coming. See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.’” ¹²They will be called the Holy People and the People

Redeemed by the Lord. And Jerusalem will be known as the Desirable Place and the City No Longer Forsaken.