"Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation!" (Habakkuk 3:18)
For since the beginning of the world [men] have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside Thee, what He [You Lord] hath prepared for him that waits for Him. Thou meets him that rejoices and works righteousness, those that remember Thee in Thy ways. (Isaiah 64:4-8)
But you Lord have grieved and wept over our inability as your beloved creation -- the apple of your eye -- to get your good news gospel message right, and to be thankful for the love that you bestow upon us each and every day, desiring You Lord to be our Rock and fortress, over the cares of this world. (Psalm 71:3)
How you must struggle with our earthly choices -- that we do not find You Lord to be our hope and our trust from our youth. Instead, we have sinned and fallen short of the glory that You our precious Lord intended for our lives. Your goodness and grace. Your kindness and love. Your mercy. Your patience and long suffering for our mouths to be filled with Your praise and honour all the day long.
Still, You Lord did not cast us off as a lost cause. Even though Thou had more than enough justification to be wroth [angry] (for we have sinned in those is continuance) You Lord had a better plan for us wherein we can/shall be saved. And this outcome, even though we are all as an unclean [thing] and all our righteousnesses [are] as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away.
Even though seemingly [there is] none that calls upon Thy Name, that stirs up himself to take hold of Thee: for Thou hast hid Thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But O Lord, you did not leave us to struggle forever in the miry clay. Instead, You Lord had a plan of "amazing grace" that you decided to freely give even before the foundation of the world was formed.
That is, You Lord, the One and Only who created the world and all that is within, would be made as one of us, and pay for our salvation -- our redemption from sin and death -- with Your own holy blood.
And now Lord, as a consequence of your love, "O Lord, Thou art our Father; we [are] the clay, and Thou our potter; and we all [are] the work of Thy hand." (Isaiah 64:4-8)
The same Lord God that was in the beginning and created all things is now -- our Father. This is why Jesus could say, "I and My Father are one!" (John 10:30) This is why Jesus could say to Philip, "If ye have seen Me, ye have seen the Father." (John 14:6-12)
Because Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. (I Timothy 3:16) All the fullness of the Godhead dwelling bodily in Him. (Colossians 2:9)
"He was in the world and the world was made by Him and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own and His own received Him not." (John 1:10-11)
"I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside Me: I girded thee, thou thou hast not known Me; that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside Me. I am the Lord and there is none else ... I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I even My hands have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded ..." (Isaiah 45:5-12)
Thus, as the scriptures covey, in an acceptable time the Lord personally delivered to His beloved creation His plan of salvation. And herein, as the prophecies foretold, the Gentiles shall see Thy righteousness, and all kings Thy glory, and Thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall name. Thou shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of Thy God. (Isaiah 62:2-3)
A time when the Gentiles shall come to Thy light, and kings to the brightness of Thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to Thee ..." (Isaiah 60:3-4)
This same Lord who willingly came forth as a mighty man shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory. (Isaiah 60:19)
JESUS - Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last. (Revelation 22:12-13)
JESUS -- the only Name in this current dispensation of grace given under heaven whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:12)
His right arm brought salvation and His righteousness sustains us when we repent and are water baptized in His Name -- the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we are clothed in His righteousness and sealed with His holy Spirit -- the Comforter -- the Holy Ghost.
This is why we delight ourselves in our Lord, because His ear is not heavy that He cannot her our inner heart's cry. But along the way, as a consequence of Adam and Eve's transgression in the garden, our iniquities separated us from our God, and our sins have hid His face from us. Our hands defiled with blood and our fingers with iniquity. Our tongues have spoken lies and muttered perverseness. (Isaiah 59:1-15)
Even still, the Lord loved His beloved creation -- you and I -- enough to put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon His head, and He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and be clad with zeal as a cloke, so that we would fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun. And that we would know that when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord SHALL lift up a standard against him. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. (Isaiah 59:16-21)
And now because of our Redeemer, our Lord God and Saviour, we can be confident and arise and shine -- for Thy light has come, and the glory of the Lord risen so that we the Gentiles shall come to Thy light also. His Name is Jesus. The Lord's Christ for one and all to behold. The Lamb of God!
"And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God -- for He hath clothed me with the garments of salvation. He hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks [himself] with ornaments, and as a bride adorns [herself] with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth her bud, and as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth: so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all nations." (Isaiah 61:9-11)
Yes, Jesus is the Lord God Almighty. There is none beside Him. And He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth ... for He SHALL deliver the needy when he/she cries; the poor also, and [him/her] that hath no helper. He SHALL spare the poor and the needy, and SHALL save the souls of the needy. He SHALL redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in His sight ... His Name shall endure forever; His Name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in Him: all nations shall call Him blessed.
For this reason, blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only does wondrous things, and blessed be His glorious Name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with His glory; Amen and Amen. (Psalms 72:8-20)
Surely, as I write this today, the time will come -- when the city no longer needs the sun, either of the mood to shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it, and the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there. (Revelation 21:23-25)
In His days, shall the righteous flourish, and the abundance of peace so long as the moon endures. (Psalm 78:7)
Let him who hath ears to hear, hear. Stand in the offering plate.
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness
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