An Incredible Invitation!

"Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the water; and you who have no money come , buy and eat, come , buy wine and milk without money and without cost." Isaiah 55:1

What a beautifully incredible invitation from our God. Are you thirsty? Come! Where? To the Water. Who can come? Everyone who thirsts. How can we come? Without money and without cost....just as we are....poor in spirit....bringing nothing to the table...empty, depleted, dry, parched and longing to be filled...we can come with nothing but a heart that so needs the WATER... the living Water that never runs dry...that satisfies our soul.

Verse 2 goes on to ask us a question that is a bit telling on the human heart. "Why do you spend your money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? LISTEN carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight in abundance."

Think of how many times we as the children of the the King of Kings run somewhere besides to the Living Waters to drink and we actually pay to do it. We shouldn't be saying Ho! we should be saying WOE! As Isaiah did in Chapter 6 as he saw the Lord High and lifted up he was stopped in his tracks and fell on his face as he realized he was substituting junk for the glory of the presence of God. I think of how many believers talk more with each other about their favorite books and TV series than their passion for the Lord and His Word and His Great Commission. Often, what is going on with our favorite football team is more troubling to us than what is happening in our churches or in our own wicked hearts.

We almost forget that we are thirsty at all until are standing at one of those WOE is me moments. "Blessed are those which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled." Is it any wonder that we are so empty as Christ's body when we spend our time and money on the same things that world does? I proclaim to my own soul that I know beyond a doubt that nothing will satisfy save Christ alone. .... not anything or everything... just Jesus. Oh we say we know that but this verse should haunt us. If we aren't living in abundance it is because we have spent our time, energy and wages on something besides the Living Water. Let's spot kidding ourselves and just come to water and be satisfied. If we have ever truly drank from it we know it truly will satisfy. So, why do we go anywhere else? As Peter declared so beautifully to our Lord, "To whom shall we go, for You have the Words of Life." He is Life itself... The Living Water....The Bread of Life... The I Am that I Am...Believe and be satisfied.

I write this to me today but you can read it if you want to. :)