2 Chronicles 6:26
When the skies shrivel up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, but then they pray at this place, acknowledging your rule and quit their sins because you have scourged them, Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Then start over with them; train them to live right and well; Send rain on the land you gave as inheritance to your people.
2 Chronicles 6:25-27
It's been awhile...and boy has it been a journey! The blessings and the burdens have all been for the purpose of building me up, and in the midst of it, God has been teaching tools and tasks at levels that I would have never learned. Many of these gifts and graces are just in the incubation stage, awaiting future moment for God's miraculous grace to make evident the maker's work in my life through a manifestation that will encourage and engage others in a life of living that will lift the Savior! I am grateful, but I am glad to have this season to move forward.
A few days ago, I was driving and I heard the spirit confirm to me what I had heard and confirm for weeks in works and deeds through myself and others...."begin again". These words came as comfort and joyous instructions to a soul that is amazed that God knows just when to provide assignment for the good of both others and for servant. This is also true of what Solomon heard and exclaimed to our God Elohim in the text..."Listen from your home in heaven, forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Then start over with them; train them to live right and well; Send rain on the land you gave as inheritance to your people." (2 Chronicles 6:25-27).
Let's take the invitation provided us by the breaking and building up of the prophet of old provided by our God...begin again. Start now, right now, making up in your mind the following:
- Tough times are over for the immediate future regardless of standing...because God is good and has good for me as I follow his will.
- My commitment to faithful living and fruitful living begins with me focused on my Father and the relationship I hold and nurture frequently.
- I will seek the goodness of the Lord in the land of living (Psalm 27:13); the seeking is worth living and loving.
- The end of everything I touch and live in will be better than how I begin within its function and purpose (Ecclesiastes 7:8).
For me, beginning this devotional and transcriptive work requires openness and a carefulness to seek simplicity and passion; two keys to a offering worthy of God that is rewarded and multiplied. As I pray this for you, I believe it also for me. Be it unto you...
