Its Not You, Its Me…
The prophet Isaiah, on behalf of the millions of disillusioned Jews of the 6th Century BCE asked the question – Has God lost his touch?
9 Wake up, wake up, O Lord! Clothe yourself with strength!
Flex your mighty right arm!
Rouse yourself as in the days of old
when you slew Egypt, the dragon of the Nile.
10 Are you not the same today,
the one who dried up the sea,
making a path of escape through the depths
so that your people could cross over?
What about us? Â Do we think that we are still speaking to the very same God who rescued the Israelite slaves from their oppressors? Â Do we think that the God we pray to today has the same heart he had for the orphans and widows he had so many years ago? Â Do we really believe that God has power to dry up oceans, to heal broken limbs and broken marriages, that God has power over death, and a clue as how to live a real life???
If not…what God are you praying to?
Do we really believe that “Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever?” (Heb 13:8) What does that mean in a changing world – where cultures are constantly in flux, the needs of the world are always shifting, and our desires for a Savior may not be what they were 2000 years ago in Roman-ruled Palestine.
Maybe Jesus is the same guy he’s always been…maybe its us who have changed?
“Jesus, its not you…its me.”
