Isaiah 58:11-14
And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in. If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Those who put their hope in God lay foundations for many generations while enjoying the labors of the generations that have gone before them. They are watered so that they might water and filled that they might be poured like concrete. They repair the breach by building on the prophets and apostles. They restore the paths by walking constantly over God's promises. The well beaten path of the faithful will again reveal itself and provide direction for generations to come.
When the people of God look forward to His day and delight in it, they find the rest of their days filled with joyful expectation. When we delight in the Lord, we are lifted into the high places and grounded in our earthly ones. We feast on the faithfulness of our fathers and on the promised future of our grandchildren under God.
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