I Will Go Before You...

'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.
I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
That you may know that I, the LORD,
Who call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.—Isaiah 45:2-3

This was said to Cyrus, but it is also there for you and for me...

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.—Romans 15:4

Let us press on then in faith and by faith knowing who our God is...He WILL go before us..He WILL make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.  The crooked places WILL be made straight and He WILL remove obstacles before us. We will go forward in the strength of our God.  As Spurgeon says “no battering ram needed!”  He will do the impossible...the gates of bronze will be broken in pieces and the iron bars which fastened them cut.  When Cyrus and His armies conquered Babylon they took all its precious treasures.  As we walk through our trials allowing God to go before us, we rejoice because we know that God’s purpose in allowing trouble is to test the reality of our faith.   When we come through the wilderness leaning on our Beloved, we are given something more precious than what Cyrus received...tried and proven...precious faith.

This He will do so that we may know that He is a God and beside Him there is no other.

16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,
17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height--
19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.Ephesians 3:16-21