“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way….” (Is 53:6)
Many believers in many churches from many streams of the Body of Messiah are praying for revival, repentance, a breakthrough from God. It is because we are recognizing that we are at a loss of knowing what to do to go on together in the Way which our Great and Good Shepherd has been wanting to lead us.
We have done many ‘good’ things, telling the flock, “This is the way, follow me.” And we are finding ourselves at the edge of a cliff, with many others who have gotten there, too. Praise God; we are not the only ones! We definitely need an intervention from our Savior to place us on safe ground and facing the right direction together!
There will still be Judases and Thomases among us (may I not be one of them, O Lord!), but we will at least know we are going on from there with all who are there, knowing that it is the Lord who mercifully and graciously rescued us and united us in His truth and love. All the different paths and well-meaning “navigators” which we have taken and followed to walk that narrow road of holiness and life have, instead, brought many of us to a dangerous dead-end.
The issues which we thought were so essential that we could not “agree to walk together” will be left behind as our crucified and exalted Lord leads us on together with more wisdom and humility.
At this time of year, when YHVH God reminds His people of the need to assemble together with a thankful and repentant heart for all His goodness to us, let us hear the trumpets blowing, saying, “Prepare ye the way of the LORD, for surely the Bridegroom comes!” Even so, Come, Lord Jesus!