Message from Scripture: 6/11/2021

 

Today’s message from Scripture comes from Isa. 58:12. “Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.”

 

Just what does Isaiah mean by repairing the breach?  How should we understand what it implies? Obviously, repairing the breach is not a literal call to carpentry. The term is used figuratively.  That which is ruptured, or broken, is a genuine relationship with God. What has caused the breach?  There was plenty of religious duty, but not from pure motives.  There may have been sacred fasts (58:3), but it was accompanied with wickedness (58:4).  They might have acknowledged the Sabbath, but they used it for their own pleasure (58:13).  They sought their own ways, while offering lip service to God.

 

God knows the heart, and empty ritual isn't pleasing to Him, or beneficial to His followers.  To restore true righteousness from genuine motives was the only way to please God, to repair the breach that sin had created, to renew fellowship with the Father. As Isaiah writes later, “But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear” (Isa. 59:2).

 

Is there a need to repair the breach today? As long as sin exists, the answer is yes. Sin is the problem, but Christ is the answer.  “For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.  And not only this, but we also exult in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation” (Rom. 5:10-11). Today, lets go out to serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His call is for each one of us to examine ourselves, and in humility to seek God through Jesus Christ from a pure heart.  It will bridge the gap to eternity. God bless.

 

Robert