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- Isaiah 55:1
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
We wake up everyday to a world that presents us with a gap.
It’s the gap between our thirst and our satisfaction, our need and our ability to supply, our sufficiency and life’s costs. And most days, we react by striving to close that gap. One of the issues with living in this world is that the longer we live in it, the more its ways can become our own.
While this world shouts “Go and fix,” God says “Come and listen.”
This is His invitation to a captive people operating on autopilot. Their inability to go anywhere, accumulate anything, or meet the costs in front of them doesn’t stop them from striving anyway. But the offer of wine and milk without cost reminds God’s children of a better way forward.
In coming to listen, the gap is abundantly filled rather than inadequately met.