WAIT and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Yes, come, buy [priceless, spiritual] wine and milk without money and without price [simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing].”
Isaiah 55:1 (AMP):
My “Good Word’ from Psalm twenty-three, talked about an invite to come and dine, and here from Isaiah, we find another invitation to come. I like the amplified version here; it notes the only thing required to have His provision is the self surrender that accepts the blessing.
Beyond the natural, tangible, good things God wants to add to our lives, He considers His word the greatest blessing we could ever receive. Therefore, the invitation to come and eat is primary. Did you notice His offer costs you nothing, yet the provision it gives is priceless?
Heavenly Provision begins with our agreement with God. Amos 3.3 asks how can two walk together unless they be agreed. Jesus said a house divided can not stand. This place of provision requires our position of oneness with the father. Alignment with his thoughts are required to be one with the Father and where we don’t agree with him WE must realign.
The wrong thinking, wrong walking, which are discussed further in this chapter, are consider unrighteous in the sight of God. Righteousness is more than a legal standing we have with God, it is fundamentally agreement with what he has decreed. In the place of my agreement with Him, I stand right before him. Since God is always right, Isaiah calls the people to return because their wrong thinking has led them into wrong paths. The realignment begins with the invitation to come and eat.
What has God said? What is the word God has declared to you that you may hold doubt and the reasoning is diluting your confidence to declare God’s truth is right. I think of the times that I’ve held my own doubts about something God has said. Doubts left unchallenged, always lead to unbelief and unbelief stops you from moving forward in the God ordained path. You might look good on the outside but God knows you’ve pulled over and parked.
Jeremiah prophesied asking ”What fault did your fathers find in me, that you’ve strayed so far from me?” They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. Jeremiah goes on to say that they had forsaken the fountain of living waters and gone after other things. God asks “what injustice have you found in me?” Jeremiah continues, “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”
This dynamic occurs when we stop feeding on the God’s provision. We give ourselves to other things. An evil heart of unbelief will cause us all to depart from the living God.
As God sends forth his word, Isaiah likened it unto rain and snow that water (refresh) and bring forth seed to sow and bread to eat (provision). The sower sows the word and man is satisfied by the fruit of his mouth. “So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it. The one aligned with God goes out in joy and is led forth in peace.