“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.”
Isaiah 55:6, 7 Isaiah 55 is a chapter about change, a chapter about impossibilities as man thinks. In the first verse the prophet speaks God’s invitation, “he that hath no money: come ye, buy, and eat”.
In the Spiritual realm as in the physical realm ‘a body at rest tends to stay at rest’. In the Spiritual realm the way this is said,
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey.” (Romans 6:16)
Here we are told to ‘Seek ye the Lord’. Make seeking the Lord part of your want to. Make calling upon him an active part of your life; and everyday part of your life.
‘Let the wicked forsake his way’. Wickedness is an action in a direction. Again out of Romans 6 there are two ways. This is no fallacy of bifurcation. God Himself has declared there are two ways. The wicked forsaking his way can only turn to God.
‘And the unrighteous man his thoughts’. Righteousness is a state of being. Again there are only two possibilities with thoughts: the are righteous or they are unrighteous.
‘Return unto the Lord.’ There is only one place to return, only one way to go when the way of the wicked is forsaken. The comfort and result of change here is that ‘he will have mercy upon him’.
‘And to our God’, the ‘Judge of the whole earth’ as Abraham declared. Never fear going to the Judge this way because ‘he will abundantly pardon’. Now a pardon is a pardon, a release from the penalty of a serious offense, the document stating so. But ‘abundantly’? The way of the wicked and the thoughts of the unrighteous have great offense and penalty against the Holy God who is the Judge of the whole earth. It is not just one offense, but many offenses, and He will abundantly pardon.
Let the Holy Spirit today be the force that affects change in my life.
