Title: The person the Lord meets
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who the Lord meets
The word of God we read today is the message the prophet Isaiah cried out to the Jewish people.
At that time, the Jewish people did not rely on God and were committing idolatry and various evils and were sinning.
Therefore, God prophesied through Isaiah that the people would be destroyed and the people would go into captivity.
At the same time, he proclaimed the message of restoration, which is a declaration that God will forgive him if he repents and turns away.
55:1-2 Come out to the waters, you who are thirsty, and those who have no money, come and buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Do you give silver for what is not bread, and labor for what you do not have enough? Listen to me, and
You will eat what is good, and you will find joy in the fatness of your heart.
55:6- Seek the LORD while he may be found; call him while he is near. You say you will meet me.
Please believe that these words are the same words of God given to us living in this age.
Who the Lord wants to meet
1. Don't miss the time. (Verse 6)
I will read Ecclesiastes 3 for a moment.
“3:1 There is a season for everything under the heavens, and a time for every purpose to be fulfilled.
2 A time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 A time to kill and a time to heal; a time to tear down and a time to build up;
4 A time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance."
That's right. However, there are times when we do not know the time and suffer more.
There are times when you and the church grow. There is a time to train and a time to receive blessings and enjoyment.
There are times of grace and times of trial.
But that time is not the time set by me, but it is in God's plan and providence.
Please believe that everything in the world will come true at the appointed time of God.
Today's text
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.”
It's time for training.
It's time to be patient, be patient.
Our church revival is a time to meet the Lord speaking to me and to receive grace. (The reason is to win.)
The important thing is not to miss that moment.
When is the best time to meet/ When you are near/ When is the time to give you grace? I say right now.
A man with the skill of making watches in Germany made a watch and gave it to his son. Hour hand / copper minute hand / silver second hand / gold
Let's not miss a second. Let's not miss today. Let's not miss the time when God speaks/gives grace.
Time is not always given. This is not the time to get what I want.
Death of Kim Hyeol-seven horse rider at the Asian Games = This is a person. A moment of tragedy is also a moment.
2 Corinthians 6:2 Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation."
Now is the time to receive grace. And now the Lord wants to use me. Don't miss this time.
Peter betrays the Lord by not praying when he should.
Blind Bartimaeus met Jesus passing through the city of Jericho. He did not miss the moment and cried out.
Zacchaeus, the tax collector in Jericho, did not give up opportunities because of circumstances. He climbed a sycamore tree and met Jesus.
Opportunities to meet the Lord are often given to us as well.
However, there are times in your life when you receive grace that you cannot receive again. But I don't know when that time will be.
Because I do not know when the Holy Spirit will work, the time when the Lord will work strongly in me, when will it be?
Don't miss out on opportunities given to you.
At the end of the year, it is said that there are no people working in each department. (Lord, don't worry it's tomorrow.)
“Whoever will find favor will do it.” “The one I write will do it.”
gives you confidence. Experience shows that God has people for you to use.
Please work when you can. What is lacking is what the Lord will bear.
Serve the Lord when you can. Opportunities don't always exist. (Kim Kim, work hard when you have the chance.)
But the Lord wants to work through me. It's an opportunity, it's time.
If he misses this, the grace that will come to him will go to someone else.
Do you think I am doing your work? Do you know what the Lord does, not what I do?
To be the person the Lord meets
2. We must turn away from what is wrong (verse 7).
55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous from his thoughts, and return to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him.
Come to our God, and he will forgive widely."
Our problem is not our sins. The problem is that we do not present ourselves before God.
The problem is not to turn away from that sin.
55:7 The wicked say, “If the unrighteous one turns away from their thoughts, God will have mercy and forgive them.
Look at the prodigal son in Luke 15. Why does the father take him?
Because he knew his mistake, repented, and came back. I've thrown it all away. Because I only thought of my father and came back
It is my son.
3. Almighty God guides us to be blessed (verses 8-9).
55:8 My thoughts are not your thoughts, saith the LORD, My ways are not your ways.
55:9 As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”
Too many people live with their thoughts as the will of the Lord. (I think it's up to you.)
Believers should know that what I expect and what God wants may be different.
Joseph is falsely accused of being a slave and goes to prison. Not the way Joseph wants. Let us know that God leads us in the high way to the high thoughts.
Moses lived in Pharaoh's palace and killed the Egyptians who beat the Israelites. After fleeing into the wilderness, 40 years passed.
There was a provision by God who led him into a high way with a high thought.
Joseph's trials were the time to become Joseph, and Moses' 40 years in the wilderness was the time for Moses to train as a leader in Israel.
Our God knows our power. And he knows our circumstances.
Let's not try to match our thoughts with God's thoughts.
I hope you align my thoughts with God's thoughts.
Do not try to lead the Lord in the way we want, but let the Lord lead us in the high way.
There are no mistakes in the thoughts and guidance of the Lord. Because God is omnipotent and great.
The word of the Lord to us today
1> Don't miss the time.
2> Throw away what is wrong and turn to God.
3> He guides us to be blessed.
I bless you that this message of invitation from the Lord will renew your life.