Hope we put this in our chapter on shame …

I can’t remember if we included it or not–but I sure hope that we have Isaiah 62 in our chapter on “shame” (in Peacemaking Women).

I was re-reading it again this weekend, praying it for myself, for our church, for The Church, for a friend–and I was struck by just how much this passage of scripture emphasizes the aspects of the gospel that speak directly to our temptation to ungodly shame:

– A new name that the Lord bestows.
– A crown of beauty, glorious.
– No longer Forsaken and Desolate because now? The Lord’s Delight is in Her.
– Sought Out. A City No Longer Forsaken.

I don’t know about you–but I’m feeling neither glorious nor sought after these days. With all of the suffering in our Body? It would be easy to be tempted to feel forsaken.

But what is truth? What is Truth? Read Isaiah 62. Meditate on it. Chew on it. Preach it to yourself–yes, individually (God saves individual people!), but also corporately (the Church, the Bride, the Body).

“Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’ And they shall be called The Holy People, The Redeemed of the Lord …” (Isaiah 62:11-12)

Yes, Lord. Amen & amen.
Let it be for it is so.

Prayerfully,
Tara B.