Messiah
Joy of Every Longing Heart - Pt 2 - God’s people suffered for years, praying that God would deliver them. He promised an Anointed One—a Messiah—to save them. In Isaiah, He was known as the Lord’s Servant, His Glory, and the Man of Sorrows. The way He would save them wasn’t what the people expected, then or now.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
When our bond with God was severed by our sin, He didn’t give up on us. He made a second Eden, a place for us to meet with Him and be redeemed. That place was the Temple, and the events that happened there teach us about a God who is mighty to save, the cost of our sin, and His plans for us.
