"And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness."
Isaiah 1:25-27
The message that comes across to me here is that redemption seems to be a process, and it is going to take time and work. We probably don't lose all of our impurities overnight, and judgement and righteousness aren't things that just suddenly happen. Even after Christ returns, it seems that we will, like the people he visited during his earthly ministry, have to learn from him and change our ways. We still have to learn to be a Zion people. Hopefully it will be much easier with him taking charge, and teaching us directly, but He isn't going to snap his fingers and make us automatically become perfect, nice as that might seem. :)
Today, let's remember that turning into really good people is a process, and that we don't have to be there instantly in order to be on our way there. Let's press forward, staying on God's path, and making progress. Let's try to be more patient, less stressed, more loving, and less defensive. Let's be thankful and generous and kind... trying to be more like the person that God envisions when he sees our potential and less like our unforunate past mistakes. :) We'll get there... God will help us. We just need to keep working at it.
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