Lord,
You call us to ‘draw near’ to You. You want us to ‘pay attention’ to
You. Help us to ‘listen’ to His Word (Isaiah 34:1). Your Word is not
always what we want to hear. It will always be what we need
to hear. ‘The Lord is angry with all nations’ (Isaiah 34:2). We don’t
like to hear about Your anger. We prefer to be told ‘You’re doing fine.’
We need to hear about God’s anger. We need to hear about how far we
have wandered away from God – ‘We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us turned to his own way.’ We are sinners. We have turned away
from You, Lord. We have chosen our own way rather than Your way. We must
hear this ‘bad news’ before we can really appreciate the ‘Good News’ –
‘the Lord has laid all our sins on Jesus’, ‘Christ died for us while we
were still sinners’, ‘Christ died for our sins’ (Isaiah 53:6; Romans
5:8; 1 Corinthians 15:3).
By Your grace, Lord, You call us to be Your soldiers and servants. Help us not to be "fearful and fainthearted" (Deuteronomy 19:19). Help us to be "good soldiers of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3). When we hear your challenging question: "Who is on the Lord's side?", may we give our committed answer: "By Thy call of mercy, by Thy grace divine, we are on the Lord's side; Saviour, we are Thine."
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