He Labors

Reading:  Isaiah 26,27
My Verse:  27:3  "I, the Lord, am its keeper;  I water it every moment; lest anyone harm it, I guard and keep it night and day."

What an image this places in my mind - that of my Lord showing His love for me by laboring away in the vineyard.  He is my Keeper.  He meets my every need.  He guards me night and day!

To picture our Lord watering, pulling out weeds and thorns, keeping out bad stuff - is beautiful.  It would seem that our God is too high above us to care for us in this way - but Isaiah often gives us this image (see Isaiah 5:4,5).  And David shows us our Lord as a Shepherd - tending to our needs. (Psalm 23)

I relish those times when my husband does things for me - special things that show his love for me.  It is a rather delicious feeling.  I realize that we do this for each other because we are God's created beings.  We do it because we are created in His Own Image.  And especially if we love and follow Him we will tend to do those things that He does for His loved ones.

Oh, Lord, You are a just and holy God and so will be terrible in Your wrath in the final days.  But that wrath will be directed to sin and those that hold onto it.  Those of us that belong to You can rejoice and rest assured that we will be gathered close to You - because we are Your beloved.  And yet . . .

Dear Lord, You do not want "... any to perish but that all should reach repentance.." (2 Peter 3:9)  And so You continue to labor.  Help me to be faithful to pray for my loved ones, to live out my life in such a way that others would see You and want You in their lives as well.

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!