The Promise, the Problem, the Provision

Isa 1:19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: (KJV)

I was meditating on the Word one morning and this is the verse that God brought to me. Sometimes when God brings things He wants me to see He does it like a waitress, who after you sit down at your table as a guest of the restaurant, comes over and places your napkin down and a glass of water with the menu. It is just gently placed there to minister to you and it is a welcomed hospitality.  That is how this word came to me.

Here God speaks so fatherly-like to Israel.  He tells them the condition of His provision for them and how that provision is to be provided.  Remember, what was a means for provision for Israel is also a means for us today many centuries later. 

He gives Israel The Promise, “if you are willing,”...notice our father does not make the condition ‘if you are perfect.’ God’s condition for us to access His loving care is not how we walk that straight line in perfection.  His provision is not accessed by how we stay inside these perfect tolerances, not “if you be perfectly obedient.” No, it implies graciousness and hospitality “if you are willing.” Do you have “a willing mind,” and will you become voluntary in your obedience to my ways and my directions for your life. It takes the sense away from us that God is out there with all these resources and He is willing to dispose of those resources to us but only if we obey him to the letter. “You know, I would have given it to you but you were a termite today so go without.” That is not how it is. God’s provision is there for us all the time and all we have to be is willing to obey Him not be perfect in our walk or human life.

In conclusion of that verse He says, “you shall eat of the good of the land.”  In other words it will yield its abundance to you. 

The Problem, remember, church, satan is the god of this world and it is he that withholds, not our God (2 Cor 4:4).  For you and me as believers sometimes we need to remember to command those devils to take their hands off of our goods. 

The Provision, Hebrews 1:14 reminds us that while the devil has an army on this earth God does too and we can ask those ministering spirits to, “Go!” Yes “GO!!! Go now! Go on my behalf, Go according to your mission........ ‘Ministering spirits’ cause the good of the land to come to me according to Gods promise.