Isaiah 63-64: Are We Ready?

Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,
   that the mountains would tremble before you!
As when fire sets twigs ablaze
   and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name known to your enemies
   and cause the nations to quake before you!
For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,
   you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.
Since ancient times no one has heard,
   no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
   who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.
You come to the help of those who gladly do right,
   who remember your ways. - Is. 64:1-5 NIV

Listen!  What is that sound?  Is it the cry of God's people begging him to come, to come as in days of old, to make his presence known., to judge the earth and judge us as well.  Do we really believe that he is coming, that he will rend the heavens and come down; that his coming will cause the mountains to tremble and nations to quake before him?

It's all considered ancient history and few really believe that there is a God with the power to flood the earth, to speak from a burning bush, to part the sea, to heal the blind and raise the dead.  There is no record of any other god who has done these things throughout history.  There is only the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who is credited with these miraculous works.  And it is only that same God that has the power to do awesome things today.  All we have to do is wait for him.  Oh, that he would come, we cry.  Are we prepared to wait?  Are we prepared for him to come?

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