Edward J. Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Isaiah 55:10,11 - Cite this page: Editor: Stephen Smith. The mountains will be made low, valleys shall be exalted, the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain, Is 40:4. Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and livestock; these things you carry are borne as burdens on weary beasts. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Read them, accept His words, and repent. The straight place is a heart of forthrightness, humility, goodness, and honesty. In an introduction to eighteenth-century Scottish pastor and theologian Thomas Bostons bookThe Crook in the Lot, J. I. Packer describes a crook this way: But in Thomas Bostons usage thecrook is the crooked, that is the uncomfortable, discontenting aspects of a persons life, the things that the Puritans called losses and crosses, and that we speak of as the stones in our shoe, the thorns in our bed, the burrs under the saddle, and the complaints we have to live with; and the lot is the providentially appointed path that God sets each of his servants to travel. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. The Hebrew word for crooked means fraudulent, deceitful, sly, or slippery. Just allow God to adjust your vision, look to Him when you are limited by your thinking to see a way out and begin to be a person of faith. Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. Josephs brothers were convicted of the sin they thought had been hidden for years when coming before the governor of Egypt (Joseph, although unbeknownst to them) to buy grain because of the famine. Nevertheless, through miraculous circumstances, Ruth ended up married to Boaz, her deceased husbands kin. We will see a supernatural highway appear with miracles breaking through, the reversing of circumstances that are oppressive obstacles to our welfare in our cities. - Isaiah 45:2 'I will go before you and make the crooked places straight' (KJV) 2. 1:18; Ez. Those with no might He increases their strength. G Remember, there are some things that suddenly change, but other things take time and need to go through a process. Publisher: OpenBible.info. Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born? Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. When we lose our way, it all becomes like a wilderness and lifes destiny and purpose seems lost and meaningless and that is where we find ourselves sometimes, on the wrong pathways in life. Everyone of these involved many tears. Publication date: Apr 23, 2023. I heard this word early the other morning as I was praying. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children. Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. 12:9-10). The Greek word for crooked isskoliosmeaning perverse, wicked, or curved. Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. M On You I wait all the day Read Isaiah (YLT) Read Isaiah 40:4 (YLT) in Parallel. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight(Proverbs 3: 5, 6 NIV). They shall mount up with wings like eagles, The mountain of debt and huge foreboding obstacles, they appear to be insurmountable and block our way, preventing any movement forward towards the promises of God for our life. Topics: Biblical Commentary, Neither faints nor is weary. He has given us inspired letters. God World English Bible for Isaiah 42:16. 40:4). And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And it is sad, but true, that there are some people who dont want to be straight they like to live on the crooked path; they dont want to live in the light, they prefer the darkness. He Gives Power to the weak And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. V Then there is those deep and dark valleys that are hard to get back out of, if you are in a vehicle then you are straining and in low gears and using a lot of gas to get back up on level ground, if it is wet and slippery it will make matters worse, it can be a real struggle to come out of the valleys in life. Developing a Spiritual Warfare Ba. (Gen.40:13-15; 23). If we lose our vehicle, we could be in a wilderness with no easy way out, restricted on foot, miles from anywhere, definitely on the rough and the hard road without means to get to our proper destination. Joseph was sold into slavery by his own brothers who envied him. I will level the mountains/make the crooked places straight. It is a path that does not go straight for a destination, but winds and twists around obstacles in its way, requiring a lot more energy to get to the destination than the straight road, like an ancient Roman road. And to those who have no might He increases strength. The Crooked places are made straight. D As Christoph Starke (1684-1744) observed, it costs time and labor to level mountains.8 He adds that God seeks fruit and is not contented with mere leaves.9 God is looking for straight paths to be built. Receive your subscription to this newsletter along with our bi-monthly Chalcedon Report all for just $20/year. n Removal of opposition to God's people. On the flip side, the sins of my past life have been used by God to teach me important lessons about His grace and mercy, and how to extend compassion to others. 1701 Rand Morgan Rd.Corpus Christi, TX 78410(361) 241-6100, Sunday School 10AMSunday Preaching 11AMSunday Evening 6PMWednesday Evening 7PMWednesday Bible Club 7PM, 2011-2021 Bible Believers Baptist Church, All Rights Reserved. Fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. The command is Prepare ye [plural] the way of the Lord. Rawlinson asserts that the way of the Lord is the way of holiness of Isaiah 35:8.5 That is precisely the highway to be built by His people. God is with me. 3, p. 28. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. CJB Every valley must be filled in, every mountain and hill leveled off; the winding roads must be straightened and the rough ways made smooth. Give him time to get this done. I say, I come out of agreement with that spirit of condemnation or accusation. There's nothing man in his own power can do to make the crooked man straight. The rough places will be made smooth, rough places of resistance to blessings, resistance of a hard place in life, where it is rough going to find success. God wants us to lead our paths, since He is the one who makes them straight. Proverbs 3:7 Verse Concepts Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the Lord and turn away from evil. 40:3), our taking that command seriously leads to the result that the crooked shall be made straight (Isa. It is a life of powerlessness and self-deception. Some things are deeply ingrained and take time to reverse, so as long as we understand the process and see that if we trust God with our future, that He will graciously see that the effect will take place, it is a matter of faith and believing sometimes when we are in the face of opposing conditions. 28 Have you not known? The crooked path is also the spiritual and emotional way or road a person is traveling through life. C Jesus makes crooked hearts and paths straight. The rough places can be made smooth in our lives - where there has been bitterness and wounds that scar our souls, these can be smoothed with healings and anointings with the good oils, that will enable us to progress on the right path without the overwhelming hindrances. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them. there are indicators, kind of internal dials, warning messages, alerts that sound off inside. And the young men shall utterly fall, But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. E. Johnson, quoted in Spence & Exell, op. What a glorious day when we see the reformation and transformation of nations, societies, regions, yielding to the moving of His wonderful grace and life changing power. 9 likes, 0 comments - Donald Cox (@bigtimercox) on Instagram: "Good Morning Big Timer ( " THIS YEAR: May everything God has proposed for you, according to his . But Elimelech, the husband of Naomi, died, and she was left with her two sons. I will make darkness light before them, Christian Reconstruction, simply stated, involves the process of making the crooked places straight. Minor Prophets, In Acts, 13, Paul admonished a sorcerer named Elymas saying, You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord? (Acts 13: 10 ESV). 2 'I will go before you But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. It is helpful to consider Gods purposes in your adversities so that you can respond in a manner that brings glory to him. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. Crooked NOW Straight. Only Jesus can take the crooked and make it. . Gods ways are higher than our ways. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Have you not heard? For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron. But I commend an important book to you Repentance. And when I believed by faith, repented, and received His forgiveness, through the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, He made me a new creation. But he said to me,My grace is sufficient for you, formy power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so thatthe power of Christ may rest upon me. The mountains will be brought down, reduced to level ground that you can easily walk through and your vision wont be blocked anymore, you will be able to see the sun shining through and the brightness of your new day. God will break into pieces the gates that hold us back from our destiny. It is when we know things are drastically wrong that we pull out suddenly from incoming disaster. What doors or gates seem shut that you can't open? Some elements that create bugs in the system are unwittingly pre-programmed, or programmed in by the developer of that particular application. Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.. You see it is just the way to go in our personal development and the maturing process to reach out to God and make that connection to get on track, we need to accept that our limited way of thinking will lead us down the wrong track and in time it will be evident. Isaiah 40:28-31 - Now you can see by faith, pictures of victory and overcoming, sense the feeling of these coming into your life and the relief it brings, the feeling of joy and winning will fill your thirsty soul. To whom will you liken me and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be alike? God has given us the gift of His Word, which will help us to evaluate properly whether something in our lives will make the path crooked or straight. Lets receive this strength to enable us to be victorious over every obstacle. The person on the straight path is focused, eyes on what is ahead. He will cut in two iron bars. He has given us the example and teachings of the Messiah. These things I will do for them, When God makes the crooked places straight, He forgives our sins, redeems our lives, and restores our hearts back to the condition of the human heart in the Garden of Eden before Adam and Eves hearts became crooked through deceit and wickedness. I will break in pieces the gates of bronze Disclosure:In order to provide this website free of charge to our wonderful readers,Beautiful Christian Life LLC uses advertisements and affiliate marketing links to generate revenue. Of stones of the desert, children of Abraham; 2. Hallelujah! He restored the years eaten by the locust. God then says to Cyrus that He (the Lord) will make the crooked places straight. It was in a moment like that when the words, fully formed, appeared in my mind I make crooked paths straight. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death. He heals our broken hearts and He seats us at His right hand in the heavenly realms, with all the powers and principalities of the dark world beneath our feet. He was telling me that in the moment when I felt ashamed and not good enough, somewhat lonely and sad, I was being deceived in that moment satan was trying to drag me, emotionally and spiritually so to speak, into a crooked place of condemnation. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk in it, when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left. F The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth. Isaiah 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: Isaiah 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. 2 (Luke), p. 60. And in the American culture today, if Jesus was physically alive, and He spoke these words, and CNN got a hold of them, He would be crucified all over again. For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. In life we are given a vehicle and it is up to us which track we go down and where we head, if we choose to go on a road that is destructive to our vehicle, eventually the vehicle will break down, or we crash and lose our vehicle and we could be injured or destroyed. Have you ever driven on a road that is poorly constructed and the bends are hard to handle, you could easily crash or hit a tree, or go off a cliff. Psalms 16:11 = You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. Thus says the L ORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have heldto subdue nations before him and loose the armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, so that the gates will not be shut: 'I will go before you and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. Making Crooked Places Straight solves that dilemma by providing information, insights, and answers from a solid biblical base. Culture , No results were found while searching for [% query %]. Perhaps we may find grass and save the horses and mules alive, and not lose some of the animals. After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. Now if we are blind, we do not see the right place to be and cannot see the right path to take. When we are so used to being a certain way, it takes time to develop to another way on a higher channel, a better track above isnt always familiar to us until we grow into the new suit from above, that fits us well and makes it all a new day for us. They shall be greatly ashamed, Butstretch out your hand andtouch all that he has, and he willcurse youto your face. (Job 1:8-11; see also 1 Pet. Based on the Scripture quoted above, the crooked place, the place of deceit and wickedness that the Bible refers to most often is the human heart. We see in our opening scripture from Isaiah 40, that even a humungous, monstrous mountain in your life can be brought down to a level place for your progress to continue. The voice that cries to us to make straight Gods highway continues to sound. 40:5) shall see Gods glory revealed in the earth. For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts. Is working with stones worth your time? The promises of this word are presented as a visual representation of a truth and why is it important to use a presentation like that? He said this regarding things he will do when he returns to earth at his Second Advent. When God commands us (for prepare ye is in the plural) to prepare the Lords way by making the highway in the desert straight (Isa. But now hear, O Jacob my servant, Israel whom I have chosen! Young's Literal Translation for Isaiah 40:4. Copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Accepting that we need adjustment isnt such a bad thing, as matter of fact that can be just part of the whole process thing here, I mean to develop and learn and find out that there are better ways for us than the same old habit patterns that have designed us and shaped our lives up to here. So, we tend to think, "just back off with the lecture! What did God mean when He spoke to me about making the crooked straight? For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. Acts 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,). The paths are not known to us, Gods ways are higher than our ways and unfamiliar, it may seem strange to us to follow these paths at first, until we come to know Him and trust God and there is an adjustment to our thinking and ways, so that we come into alignment to the Highway of life. I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. The crooked place now at once vanishes as being melted into the will of God. Of course, he was talking about things under the sun. 154 likes, 0 comments - City Church Lagos (@citychurchlagos) on Instagram on January 16, 2023: " A royal figure does not arrive at a place alone, in fact, a forerunner goes ahead to prepar." City Church Lagos on Instagram: " A royal figure does not arrive at a place alone, in fact, a forerunner goes ahead to prepare for their coming. Thered be no reason for the prophet to talk about the crooked being made straight unless we start with a crooked post-fall world. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greedGod is witness. 16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; (Thomas Boston,The Crook in the Lot: Living with That Thorn in Your Side, pp. Find the highway in your desert, see your crooked situation made straight - wait on the Lord, praying in the spirit and reading His word, J. Alec Motyer, The Prophecy of Isaiah: An Introduction & Commentary (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1993), p. 300. Get info at: http://www.morningswiththeholyspirit.com. Made by Refuge Creative | 2022 | Hendersonville, NC. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. NASB 1995 I knew they were from Scripture, but not from any passage I was studying. n God will be nobody's co-pilot. As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. We enter the straight path through the narrow gate that leads to life. Spence & Exell, The Pulpit Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, n.d.), Vol. They Mount up on Wings of Eagles . Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? Satan makes the crooked path look good. The literal crooked path reminds me of a path or road with many meandering loops, turns, and bends. Then he was imprisoned on a false accusation from his masters wife. "Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth." (Jeremiah 33:6) God is the healing power that heals us. T If He does this, He will always be near and He will give the strength to endure). Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. Satan always condemns; the Holy Spirit convicts. I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron: LSB "I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars. 17 They shall be turned back, Ultimately, he was called out of prison to interpret Pharaohs dream and give him counsel concerning the coming years of plenty and drought. So, I run straight toward the goal in order to win the prize, which is Gods call through Christ Jesus to the life above (Philippians 3: 13, 14 Good News Translation). The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him, How can a man be born when he is old? So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. Just remember what the power of God can make out of stones: 1. There is meant to be some challenges in life which are all part of the learning curve, that is fine and dandy for healthy development, so yes we can have some crashes on the way and that can be just how things are meant to be with the growing, learning and gaining new experiences in life. But those who turn aside to their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Who trust in carved images, In Ecc 1:15, Solomon wrote, That which is crooked cannot be made straight. God wants us to actively participate in trusting Him to make the crooked straight, and we all can expect to be a part of His process. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. Having that kind of strength and power before us, behind us, and within us is a huge comfort. 35:9). - Luke 3:5 I've always. Regeneration is the process through which Jesus makes the crooked straight. The way can be straight, not because of my efforts and power, but because of His. And here are three passages, out of many, that I found: I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. He redeemed my relationship with Himover my entire lifeand healed my heart. Labs From this place of power he was able to save his brothers lives. Many Christians today adopt the autonomous epistemology1of Eccl. Christians do not need to fear the crooks God allows in their lives but can instead rest in Gods faithfulness. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth..
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