Yearning For The Lord Himself - Ruminating in the Word of God

The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in Isaiah 26:9,

"My soul yearns for you in the night;
    in the morning my spirit longs for you.
When your judgments come upon the earth,
    the people of the world learn righteousness."

We live in a day of lawlessness. "Defund the police" movements, district attorneys who decline to prosecute criminal behavior, looting and rioting and the burning of communities condoned. Parents who object to the tenants of what their children are being subjected to in the schools relative to Marxism under the guise of "Critical Race Theory" and forced acceptance of homosexuality and gender-bending under the guise of social justice, are labeled and investigated as domestic terrorists  by the FBI if they dare take their concerns to the local school board. It all leaves many of us feeling a strong desire for reclaiming our moral and ethical heritage, a deep desire for the rule of law under the constitutional priciples our republic was established on.

The people of the world, and certainly our nation need to learn righteousness.

While I share that strong desire, it would be short-sighted to end my hopes and expectations there. During a time when very difficult circumstances spiraled out of control around Israel, the return to "righteousness" is seen in Isaiah's prophecy as a yearning for the Lord himself. Simply a return to the "good old days" will not do. Nothing short of a return OF the Lord needs to be our perspective.

It will only be when the day of the Lord comes that the world will learn of righteousness. The blessings of the good old days will certainly be eclipsed by the return of the Lord when his kindom is founded on the septer of his justice and his rightiousness.

I am reminded in these frustrating days to continue to yearn for the Lord himself, to place my hope in him, not just seek a relief from lawlessness. The absence of lawlessness is only a part of all we will have from to the presence of the Lord.

Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!

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