Nagging God
“You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the pride of the earth.” Isaiah 62: 6Isaiah 62: 6
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6 I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,b-7
Lord, I laugh every time I read these verses. If ever there was an invitation to nag You, this has gotta be it! You say to give you no rest - what a far cry that is from the people who say, “pray once, and then if you pray for the same thing again you are lacking faith.”
I think, too, of Your illustrations in the New Testament … the woman who kept nagging the unjust judge till he gave her justice, and the bloke who kept banging on his friend’s door in the middle of the night till the friend got up and gave him a loaf of bread. In both cases the message seems to be, “keep making a pest of yourself till you get what you want.”
Now, Lord, I know that the world has a saying that “it’s the squeaky door that gets the oil”, but I don’t quite understand why You would be like that. After all, You love us and want the best for us even more than we do. Particularly I don’t understand why You would be like that with things that You have already said that You want to do … like establishing Jerusalem, or establishing the Kingdom of God on earth. If it is Your will and purpose to do these things, then why don’t You just go ahead and do them? Why do You need us to nag You into it?
Something just occurred to me, though, Lord. From the beginning You wanted to reign on earth through man. You appointed us as Your vice-regents and gave us Your authority. Sure, we handed that to satan when we sinned - but that never changed Your purposes, did it? So, when You invite us to nag You like this, are You really inviting us to step into the position You called us to in the first place? Is it really more about moving us than about moving You?
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There is one God, and one mediator between God and people, the man Christ Jesus (1 Timothy 2:51 Timothy 2:5
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5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,)in Whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells in bodily form (Colossians 2:9Colossians 2:9
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9 For in him all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily,)and Whom God the Father has exalted to the highest place, giving Him the Name which is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11Philippians 2:9-11
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9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name;
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.)
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