The Barren

Isaiahs Vision 54:1-3

Now I do not know about you, but there is something about that little word barren that I just do not like. It is a highly technical term in effect meaning something that someone did not have. Whether you soon will have it is entirely up to the Lord. But up until now, it has not happened yet. At this point, some of you might be tempted to wonder how a good God could allow such a thing to happen. Yet that is hardly the point, as you will soon see here. Could it be that our God has another perspective in mind, one that we as yet know nothing of. For as the heaven is higher than the earth of Book of Psalms 103:11 means that God has some high ways indeed of which we know not. In all this though, our God is still good.

Even now he is ruling and reigning in the affairs of men. For such a thing we too ought to praise him, though it would be nice to know for what cause first. See, this woman has been through some dark days indeed. You might could even say through hell and high water. Yet in all that though, as David once found, Gods hand too still guided her and his heart towards her was good.

Even when you do not think the providing is any good, of this you can be sure, that God still guides you very well. Let us see what will happen now to this one who has not had a child as of yet and likely never will. Notice her state of being barren, abandoned, and never in pain as seen here in the text. Through all this though, she still praises God for his guidance. Somebody shout he is leading me.

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

The God that has led thus far surely will bring something back out. It might be a test and a trial for now but when God is through rest assured, his

providing will soon catch on back up. See, most people praise God for his providing. Yet here this woman praises him for his guiding and for being God all by himself. There were some situations that you might not have known about but God did. After all, it was what God had rescued her from. There is shown a shift coming in the text. She is given the divine directions to enlarge her tent and make it bigger as though expecting some company. In case you were wondering, a habitation is where someone dwells. For God, all of Heaven and earth cannot contain him, how much less this house that you have built as Solomon once did.

Yes, it is very much like the house that Jack built only without Jack. Sure, there are some people working on it, but of this you can be sure. Best let that founder and maker thereof be God. Else will you be like that holy city, which needs not ought but the Lord. Look on with me then, as the work of

stretching out a certain house even now has already begun. The cords and the stakes spoken of here are hardly instruments of cruelty or the only thing

which this one now possesses aside from a tent. Rather, these are things that speak of the hidden abiding of a life firmly planted in Christ. He is that good ground then on which we stand, or that rock on which naught else was laid.

For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, as David once found, for he is a good God indeed to his people. There is company coming, as we see in the text, and nobody knew it but for the Lord. See, man thought they had restricted her, kept her firmly fenced in. Yet when you know the Lord, there is no mountain too high, no valley too low, nor place ever to far that his grace cannot rescue you from. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so indeed. Could it be God had another point of view. As seen here in the text, his providing though without was never at fault.

Come on now, God has guided thus far, and now his providing has just caught this woman up. There is something coming of her from which God will use to bring forth the nations. How could this woman want for anything as of just yet. She is birthing something , and God has used it to bring out his people. There is a seed of the Gentiles and some desolate cities in need of repair. In all your struggles and pain, see how good God is yet to his people. It seems the providing of God was never at fault. Could it be that your perspective just had not caught up. Now that too has been made new, together let us witness Gods care for his people.