OUR FATHER WHO REACHES OUT FOR US

Isaiah chapter 65 verse 1 ( x chapter 64 verse 13) says this;

“I permitted Myself to be sought by those who did not ask for Me; I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.

I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’ To a nation which did not call on My name.

This verse reveals the bracing reality about the condition of mankind in relation to our creator.

If the Lord did not permit Himself to be sought and to be found, we, as a race, would never have be able to reach Him. 

If the Lord had not gone out of His way to indicate that He was there and who He was, we would have remained completely in the dark about the God who made us.

The very brightest among us may have been able to form a rough idea of the nature of the God from creation but this would have been uncertain and even more contested than it is today.

To our eternal benefit, the God who made us in His image, deliberately set out to make Himself known to those He created even when, in our fallen and rebellious state, we were determined to follow our own ways.

We consorted with false gods and occupied ourselves with the pursuit of fleshly desires but the Lord still called out to us to turn back to Him.

Our God loved us so much that He made the ultimate sacrifice of giving His son unto death in order to pay the ransom for our redemption after we had fallen under the sway of the kingdom of darkness.

Let us believe in the Lord Jesus who was slain so that we, by calling upon Him and trusting in Him, can be saved and  find our God who loves us and reaches out for us.

Amen.