Isaiah 55:1-9
Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
This is the New Heaven and the New Earth, in New Jerusalem the Capitol City with the Water of Life flowing and the Tree of Life growing along its banks (Revelation 22:1-2).
Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy?
We are spending our means for worldly pleasures and focusing on this life, that can never satisfy our real needs.
Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live;
When we listen to what God says in His Word, and take to heart what He tells us, shaping our lives according to His life principles; real life is spirit.
And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David.
Also called the New Covenant (Jeremiah 31:31; 32:40; Hebrews 13:20), it is as enduring as the covenant made with David (II Samuel 7). (The Ryrie Study Bible, p. 1095.)
Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. Behold, you will call a nation you do not know, and a nation which knows you not will run to you, because of the Lord your God, even the Holy One of Israel; for He has glorified you.
There will be people from every nation who will enter into this New World and recognize the honor God gave Israel, His chosen.
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.
Don't put it off; when you feel the drawing of the Lord, don't ignore it. When I felt His drawing me, I didn't know it was God, I was looking for Truth; and when He found me (I'm the one who was lost!) I let Him overwhelm me, I didn't push Him away; I knew He was the Truth I'd been seeking after.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to the Lord, and He will have compassion on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
Exactly what happened to me: I didn't fall back into the wickedness that had been my lifestyle, and my thought processes turned away from worldly pursuits to wanting to know more about God's Word, the Bible.
"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways," declares the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the Earth, so are My ways higher than Your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts."
God is saying that He has a higher perspective on what He's looking at and understands. It's like we're in a maze, and we must try every turn and every path to figure out the map of the lay of the land; but God is in the helicopter above the whole maze, so He can just see the way out without having to figure it out--He understands it all, so we can trust Him.
Don't ever think that you can put off to tomorrow turning your life around, when today is the only time we have; yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day of Salvation.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
