Isaiah vs. Pat

A Full Life in the Emptiest of Places

9 -12"If you get rid of unfair practices,
quit blaming victims,
quit gossiping about other people's sins, If you are generous with the hungry
and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness,
your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always show you where to go.
I'll give you a full life in the emptiest of places—
firm muscles, strong bones. You'll be like a well-watered garden,
a gurgling spring that never runs dry. You'll use the old rubble of past lives to build a new,
rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You'll be known as those who can fix anything,
restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate,
make the community livable again.
13 -14"If you watch your step on the Sabbath
and don't use my holy day for personal advantage, If you treat the Sabbath as a day of joy,
God's holy day as a celebration, If you honor it by refusing 'business as usual,'
making money, running here and there— Then you'll be free to enjoy God!
Oh, I'll make you ride high and soar above it all. I'll make you feast on the inheritance of your ancestor Jacob."
Yes! God says so!
This passage is so fitting and true! God has blessings laid out all around us, everywhere that we turn, but often our hands are full, and we are unable to reach down and pick them up. Career, hobbies, whatever it might be that keep our hands full. Whatever we chose over God will eventually become our IDOL!
Our charge is to both proclaim and embody the gospel so those around us can see, hear and feel the presence and love of God. Think about that, we are to be the embodiment, the tangible presence, the hands and feet, the warm embrace of our God to this world! Project-44 is an attempt to do just that. We are nothing more than faithfully following our Lord. And with that obedience God has done ALL of the heavy lifting. We only follow, everything that has happened has been by God alone. We would never assume to be able to give cars away to people, that just sounds silly. But GOD will, and GOD has!