Series: Advent
Isaiah 40:3-4 ESV check verse
I Corinthians 2:6-13 ESV
Isaiah 64:4 ESV
There are times when we need to consider scripture from a different point of view.
I am a visual person and I tend so see scripture visually.
For example we read in Isaiah 40:3-4, “A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.”
Just for a minute, close your eyes and see the wilderness.
See a path going through the wilderness.
See the desert.
The path is made of sand in the desert.
Then suddenly the valley begins to rise up.
The mountains become level with the valley.
Then everything becomes level, even the rough places.
When that happens we notice the line of sight is exponentially increased.
The change in the topography of the landscape changes everything. As far as the eye can see, everything is revealed.
So, what if that does not only speak to a leveling of the earth?
What if it refers to our understanding?
Now let’s take it another step further…
What if the prophet saw that in the future we would be able to understand things and see things we could not see before.
In 1 Corinthians 2:6-13 we are told, “among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man
imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”— these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.”
The Apostles had seen but they had not seen everything…yet.
Paul who was an educated Pharisee and classically trained in Old Testament scriptures knew Isaiah wrote about seeing but not seeing.
The Apostle Paul referred to Isaiah’s words in Isaiah 64:4:
“From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.”
We wait for God who is beside us.
We wait for God to act.
When I was a wee lass and I questioned God’s timing me da would remind me to wait.
I was young…twenty something.
I thought I knew everything.
The truth is I really knew nothing. In time I came to understand that sitting WITH God as we wait WAS the answer.
God loves us and wants to sit with us.
God stands ready to wait WITH us.
Spiritual Practice: Sit with God
Wait.
In God, Deborah
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