Intermission

Well hello there!  You probably wondered what had happened to the Friday posts the past few weeks.  The truth is that sometimes in life we have to take intermissions.  Easter weekend was busy, we had no power and was hunkered down through the storm, a computer virus hit us, and then I had a child celebrating her birthday.  All the while, my heart longed to be able to share some things but I had to wait...

I am one to believe that all things happen for a reason and that all things come in their time.  Certainly God is like this, always doing things on His schedule rather than ours.  Ecclesiastes speaks of this well and another verse that comes to mind is Isaiah 55:8-9:

 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts."  

To be honest, God had to work some things in me before I could continue here.  I needed an intermission, and quite possibly so did you.  I pray that He has been working His Truth in your heart and that the next installment out of Jeremiah 29 will be a word in due season for your soul.  I will end this intermission with the rest of Isaiah 55 for it speaks well to all I have said, and to where we are going.  Isn't God good?!  

" For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless], but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.  For you shall go out [from the spiritual exile caused by sin and evil into the homeland] with joy and be led forth [ by your Leader, the Lord Himself, and His word] with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.  Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name of renown, for an everlasting sign [of jubilant exaltation] and memorial [to His praise], which shall not be cut off." Isaiah 55:10-13 (Amplified Bible)

I see beauty coming from the ashes and unquenchable joy coming from the pain!  Do you see it too?