Progression of Healing

Reading Isaiah 15 - 19
My verse:  19:22 "And the Lord shall smite Egypt smiting and healing it and they will return to the Lord, and He will listen to their entreaties and heal them."

I like the progression here.  The Lord will "smite" and 'heal' then "they will return to the Lord." Lord this is pretty awesome what you do to Egypt here.  I can see a direct application to my life.  I know how often I need the "smiting"  to get my attention, then the "healing"  to enable me to see my need of You. Only then can I call on you for help and only then will you forgive and heal me.

Dear Lord, walking with you can be sweet but so often I get tied up in knots about the wrong things.   I become absorbed with solving things my own way.  It is then I need the smiting to get my attention.  Thank you for being so patient and never giving up on me!  Thank you again for Phillippians 1:6!

Ditat Deus - God Enriches!