Day 215: Is 30:1 - 33:23

I love chapter 33 because although many of the previous chapters in this book have alluded to God's willingness and desire to rescue us, we haven't really seen much about that. So far we've seen alot of death and destruction, but we finally get to see some retribution in this chapter. I know this seems to be somewhat of a common theme that I tend to write about, but so many times, we just get caught up in the problems and the troubles and the things that we did wrong and we don't stop to realize that if we will turn ourselves around, God will rescue us. We see in these passages that God finally decided to step in and He fought with the gloves off. So many times we have this silly notion that if God ever does decide to help us out, it'll probably be difficult to tell if he's really helping us because He'll act so subtly and "mysteriously." I think that's absolutely wrong. God is a big God and He does everything big. When we ask for His help and He gives it to us, not only will we know, but everyone around us will see it too.

- Lord, thank You for Your willingness to pick us up out of the mess that we've made. You are a faithful Father and we can rest knowing that You will always be there waiting to pick us up and take us to the place where You are calling us. -