“Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
3
Incline your ear, and come to me;
hear, that your soul may live;
and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.
4
Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples.
5
Behold, you shall call a nation that you do not know,
and a nation that did not know you shall run to you,
because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel,
for he has glorified you.
6
“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
7
let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.
In the middle of this passage, in verse 6, we have a parallel thought: Are there times when God is not in? Is he ever "out of town" or hiding from us? Sometimes it may seem that way when we pray. But it is us, not Him. He begins with an invitation: "Come, come in your neediness to the supply house and see what God is willing and wanting to do and to give." Then He gives the key words: Listen, Call, Seek. We are the ones who have turned our back, gone astray, and stopped the conversation. We are the reason it sometimes seems like He is hiding. We are thinking "too low," while He has high thoughts, goals, plans and purposes. Let us listen to His compelling words and listen, call on Him, and seek His face.
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