OUR FATHER WHO RESTORES THE BRIDE OF CHRIST FROM RUIN

The book of Isaiah chapter 49 verse 13 says this;

Shout for joy, you heavens; rejoice, you earth; burst into song, you mountains!

For the Lord comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.

This verse prescribes the appropriate response to the compassion that the Lord has on His people who have been oppressed and harassed.

As the Lord restores His people, those in heaven should shout for joy and those on earth should revel in gladness and the spiritual kingdoms should burst into song.

In this moment, Zion, the people in the kingdom of God said this in verse 14;

But Zion said, “The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.”

Zion had not yet realised that the time of her turmoil had come to an end.

She had been devastated by the destruction of brought against her and her territories by her enemies and was still reeling from the attacks.

However, the Lord had intervened to drive away her foes and return her people back into her fold and she was not set up to handle the huge revival that occured as verse 19 says;

“Though you were ruined and made desolate and your land laid waste, now you will be too small for your people, and those who devoured you will be far away.

The bride of Christ is stunned to find that even when she was in shambles from the onslaught of her enemies, people were still being saved and being added to her numbers such that as verse 21 says;

Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who bore me these?

I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. Who brought these up?

I was left all alone, but these—where have they come from?’”

Amen.

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