All Is Not Lost!

 

Tempted to believe the events unfolding in our world.. the nation.. are shocking and surprising?

They aren’t to God.

Heartbreaking, maybe, but not surprising.

And we learn best of this subject matter from the writer of Ecclesiastes, “History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.”  (Eccl 1:9)

The Prophet Isaiah forecasted destruction and ruin to a people who were living in sin and were consumed with ingratitude.  

His words almost shake me out of my chair to read them.  “Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned.  Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see.”  (Isaiah 1:7)

Sound familiar?

And reaching for my commentary I see it… and my eyes can’t shift from it, “If we heed not the voice of the Lord, we must feel the weight of His hand.”

But it goes on.

“Yet there is still hope.”

And further it goes.

“There is still a remnant of people left.”  (Ahh… yes… my word for 2021.  The one that keep repeating itself to me by way of His Word.)

“Thank God, while there is life, there is hope.  At the very moment when we are tempted to say of the ruined nation, the broken life, ‘All is lost!’ a voice is heard, ‘All may yet be restored!’”

All is not lost, friend.
It’s not.
Not for those who choose to see what side of the battle has already won.
Not for those who claim and cling to Jesus who never sees storms the same way we do.
Not for the those hear the voice and are changed by it’s tone.

Rise up!!
All is not lost.
You may be… but you don’t have to be.
Those who have been undeservingly found know of hope and let that be the guiding force of their life.

All is not lost… all may YET… even YET… be restored.
The choice is individually ours.