1.16.24 - Isaiah 51:7-8
What changes in your actions when you stop believing the negative lies of those trying to control your wholeness, your flourishing?
Listen to me, you who know righteousness, you people who have my teaching in your hearts; do not fear the reproach of others, and do not be dismayed when they revile you. For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool, but my deliverance will be forever and my salvation to all generations.
Where the focus goes, the energy flows.
The prophet Isaiah is again inviting readers to pay attention to God’s invitation. It’s an invitation to listen, to tune in, to the wisdom and teachings and postures of God’s people.
There will always be haters, nay-sayers of the God-way. Isaiah says: tune them out. Again: these kinds of things won’t last in the grand scheme either.
Only God’s deliverance and God’s salvation endures. “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.” (Hellen Keller)
Our focus determines our reality.
What's one way you could choose to tune into eternally enduring love today? Which narrative can you turn up the volume on? Which narrative can you mute?
-- Libby Tedder Hugus