Our Daily Bread Today Isaiah 64 ++

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Isaiah 64:1-12
1Oh, that you would burst from the heavens and come down! How the mountains would quake in your presence! 2As fire causes wood to burn and water to boil, your coming would make the nations tremble. Then your enemies would learn the reason for your fame! 3When you came down long ago, you did awesome things beyond our highest expectations. And oh, how the mountains quaked! 4For since the world began, no ear has heard, and no eye has seen a God like you, who works for those who wait for him! 5You welcome those who cheerfully do good, who follow godly ways. But we are not godly. We are constant sinners, so your anger is heavy on us. How can people like us be saved? 6We are all infected and impure with sin. When we proudly display our righteous deeds, we find they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away. 7Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.
8And yet, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are the potter. We are all formed by your hand. 9Oh, don't be so angry with us, LORD. Please don't remember our sins forever. Look at us, we pray, and see that we are all your people.
10Your holy cities are destroyed; even Jerusalem is a desolate wilderness. 11The holy, beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned down, and all the things of beauty are destroyed. 12After all this, LORD, must you still refuse to help us? Will you continue to be silent and punish us?
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~ Lena’s Journalin’ Today~
This passage is so rich, I’m about to burst with its message to me. I looked up only a few of the words in original Hebrew and the keys are unlocking doors this morning!
This is a cry from the heart of one who has not seen salvation demonstrated yet, Isaiah is before Jesus came to earth. But Isaiah is a “Divine Dreamer”, he sees stuff, in fact prophets were called exactly that- “Seers”. He saw a lot that he never would see while he lived on earth, many of these things he “saw” in the spirit, in the eternal realm, were about salvation, about being delivered from the mouth of hell’s fire, and out of the pull or chain of darkness which was all over the entire earth.
Isaiah cried out after seeing some of this hope. In so many words he was saying – Oh God, that heaven would come to earth! Oh God, please let what I see come into earth’s realm too! Let Your Kingdom come here, just like it is up there, where I’m now viewing it. Lord, let others understand and see as far off as I’m seeing too.
The word “rend” means to open up the eyes wide, it means to break down what keeps sight from being clear. When he says come down, he is saying, bring to the people, revelation of Your Kingdom. Let it drop like a light in their understanding, so they can live for its purpose and message while they are still living here on earth!
He’s talking of an atmosphere breach, heaven’s and earth’s. He’s crying out in intercession, saying, let that gap be filled in! Let the messages of heaven ascend and descend from the earth, like angels do.
Then he continues his prayer- Oh that mountains would also come down…this is not the same “down” we read when he cried for God to come down. This one means to bow low and humble one’s self. Mountains are representatives of peoples thinking that stands in the way of God’s will and plan. That people would lay down any thinking that stands in the way of God’s kingdom being established!
The word “presence” means, “face”. He’s saying, IF and when they see your face as I have seen it, they will get it, I know they will!
He’s saying that there are things that will happen to people and in the earth to bring them to this place of finally seeing God’s face clearly, things have got to move out of the way. Tragedies at work sometimes shake things and people up to a point of being able to seek and find God. He’s praying, whatever it takes God, if they will find You, it will be worth every bit of shaking! He’s saying the fire of hell will be much hotter than any other burning here and if we do not burn for God’s kingdom here, we could burn in eternal fury.
Don’t you just burn in your heart to save people out of that fire of fury? Did you know that fire was not made for man? It was made for rebellious satan and his angels, his ministers, his princes, to burn up forever. BUT satan has a plan too, to take everyone who with their free will, will go in with him. He also does not want to be alone, but his desire to not be alone has not one thing to do with love, as God’s does. Satan’s desire to bring people with him is in accordance with his rebellious nature, it is to spite God, in the “face”, if he can keep people from God’s presence, His “face”, he knows he’s won against God, he’s hit God in the heart. If someone gets in the “face” or presence of God and tastes God as He is, and is able to see Him, they’ll recognize love and truth, they’ll get a hunger for it.
This is why when a Christian gets involved in a person’s life, they should not give up in sharing their faith with that person, the more of the presence of God’s love is shown the more hunger will be stirred. I so feel the coaching of the Holy Spirit tell me to stay, stay, stay involved in a person’s life as long as I can. While there is still breath in their lungs, there is still hope.
Sin is ugly, but redemption is sweet, its revelation is so freeing. No one and nothing, no good action, or great attitude about life can save anyone from the ugliness of sin and its penalty of death upon each of us, except the blood of Jesus. What can wash away all of my ugly sin and my appointments with eternal death in hell’s fire? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. That blood is not silent, it speaks for men even 200 years later, after it was all poured out.
A church building may be destroyed by a government or emptied of people, but the Temple of God, the hearts of people where God’s Spirit is alive and well, can never be destroyed!

Proverbs 27:17-19
17 You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another. 18 If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored. 19 Just as water mirrors your face, so your face mirrors your heart.
Psalm 122:1
1 When they said, "Let's go to the house of God," my heart leaped for joy.