Annie’s Ink-Lings
This Week's Scripture Focus: Isaiah 61:11
For as the earth brings forth its bud, 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 the nations.
The prophet Isaiah is comparing how a garden grows seeds planted in it to how God brings forth righteousness and blessings in our lives. We can’t get inside a seed and press a button to make the seed grow. The blessing of life and growth is miraculously within the seed, placed there by God. We can’t “make” something grow, but we can provide the right environment for the seed to bud, grow, and be fruitful. That’s also how we receive and flourish in God’s blessings. We can’t “make” or “manufacture” them, but we can put our hearts and minds in the right environments of faith, fellowship, and obedience, to see blessing grow and flourish. In this passage, righteousness means deliverance, which is a reference to the coming Messiah, who will provide the means of deliverance for all nations.
Blessings,
Annie
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