Title: Lead My People
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Bring out my people (Isaiah 43:8-10)
We come face to face with the people around us in one way or another. I live a busy and frantic life, but I always have to check whether I am living with Christ in my heart. If you have the heart of God in your heart, you will be able to see other people through the eyes of your heart. Then you can figure out what kind of life they live, what kind of pain they suffer, and what they live for. So how do you feel about them first?
‘Over there~ Church~, Jesus once~’
Doesn't your mouth drop? The Lord wants to benefit many people through me, so the reason he pushes the gospel out of my heart but goes back down my throat is because of gravity?
The reason why Jesus cannot be communicated to others through church members is as follows. It is because they only know Jesus and are not confident, have faith but do not have confidence, or have confidence but life does not follow. What is constant is that the Lord is always knocking on our hearts. As if God had knocked on Isaiah's heart.
In today's text, God tells Isaiah to lead the people. Verse 7 says that all those who are called by my name are those who gather together in the name of the Lord. At that time, the people of Israel were in a diaspora situation where they were scattered to the east, west, north and south. Each of them lived serving Jehovah God in their own way, wherever they were captured or where they were hiding. However, after living like that for so long, I became obsessed with living in a different culture and became far away from God. The Lord is sorry for that and tells Isaiah to call the people.
This situation becomes an important metaphor for the church and life. We serve God and believe in and follow Jesus Christ, but if we dive into our lives, we become a diaspora. As I work and experience neighbors, I become insensitive to God's voice in various situations. Yet God continues to call. He keeps knocking on my spirit to wake me up. Even if you can't hear it, you hear it with life. That's why the text says to bring out a people who have eyes but do not see and have ears but do not hear.
In the book “Supper with Jesus,” a woman named Mary appears. She tells the counselor that she is usually dissatisfied with her husband while raising children and that life is difficult. And they envy their friends and neighbors, saying they look happy. The counselor is actually a modern-day Jesus setting, and this woman tells the story of the lives of her envious friends. They suffer as much as Mary you, and they suffer invisibly. They tell me that they just looked at the outside and thought that they were the only ones who were happy. Those who have not met God live their lives by considering other things as happiness without filling their souls. Our neighbors are not truly happy. They need God.
Isaiah, who was always walking with God, calls out to the people whose spirit has been darkened to turn to God again. That's our role. When our lives become walking with God and the fragrance of Jesus appears, we can tell them boldly.