Go to THE SPECIALIST!

 

The older I get the more time I spend at the doctor. Most of you that are older than 60  can relate to that. It used to be I had only one doctor to deal with, my family doctor. But now I have an abundance of specialists. I have an Endocrinologist, Cardiologist, Urologist, Sleep Doctor, and a normal Family Physician. Oh, yes, don't let me forget my own PERSONAL NURSE PRACTITIONER, she is the best of them all! But, I do love all my doctors. So, when we moved to New Castle I have kept them. What that means is I have to travel north for all the appointments. I just hate the thought of breaking in a new group of physicians.  It has taken me quite a while to get them trained, LOL!

I was thinking about all the SPECIALISTS I have in my life as I was reading Isaiah 22 this morning. Israel was in trouble, they were constantly under attack, Assyria and then Babylon. And when I read this part of scripture it reminded me that I need to go to the RIGHT SPECIALIST!

"Oh what a day of crushing defeat! What a day of confusion and terror brought by the Lord, the Lord of Heaven's Armies, upon the Valley of Vision! The walls of Jerusalem have been broken, and the cries of death echo from the mountainsides. Elamites are the archers. The men of Kir hold up the shields. Chariots fill your beautiful valleys and charioteers storm your gates. Judah's defenses have been stripped away. You run to the armory for your weapons. You inspect the breaks in the walls of Jerusalem. You store up water in the lower pool. You survey the houses and tear some down for stone to strengthen. the walls. Between the city walls, you build a reservior for water from the old pool. But you never ask for help from the One who did all this. You never considered the One who planned this long ago." (Isiah 22:5-11, NLT)

Judah was doing everything HUMANLY POSSIBLE to fight the battle. They were strengthening the walls they were getting all their weapons, and they were shoring up their water reserves. The one thing they forgot to do? They didn't go to the LORD. It says they "never asked for help from the ONE who did all this!"

That is a perfect picture of us. We will run to doctors for healing, and we should. We run to lawyers for legal advice, and we should. We run to an electrician if we have electrical issues. Why don't we go the the LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH when we are fighting our battles? The Lord is THE SPECIALIST to fight our all battles for you. It says right after these verses that the LORD WEEPS and MOURNS for us when we won't turn to him for help. God allowed all of this to happen to his people because he thought they would repent and turn to him in their time of need. Sadly, they did not. We do the exact same thing. TURN TO HIM, REPENT and appeal to his power, strength, mercy, and grace to get you out of the muck and the mire. HE IS THE LORD and can defeat ANY ENEMY.  TURN TO HIM!

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