The Humble And Contrite

Isaiah 57:15  

"For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; 

I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite 

and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, 

and to revive the heart of the contrite ones"  

   God dwells in the High and Holy Place, and will have all the world to know it. Whoever has any business with God must direct it to Him as their Father in heaven, for that's where He dwells. In His grace and mercy;  He has a tender pity for the humble and contrite. If they Are His people, He will not overlook them, though they are poor and low in the world, and despised and trampled upon by men. God will have a tender regard to those who, being in affliction, and accommodate themselves to their affliction, no matter how low or ever had sad and sorely broken; those that are truly penitent for sin, and who mourn in secret for it, and have a dread of the wrath of God, and are submissive under all his rebukes; With These God Will Dwell!

   He will visit them graciously, will converse familiarly with them by His word and Spirit, as a man does with those of his own family; He will be always nigh to them and present with them. He that dwells in the highest heavens dwells in the lowest hearts and inhabits sincerity as surely as He inhabits eternity. In These He Delights! He will revive their heart and spirit, will speak that to them, and work that in them by the word and Spirit of His grace. 
   My Friends, When troubles come, the spirit even of good men sometimes fails. His comfort with God is gone, and despair sets in; and then the spirit fails. It is for this reason, that God will not contend forever; for God will not forsake the work of His own hands nor defeat the purchase of His Son's blood. The reason is taken not from our merit, but from our weakness and infirmity; for He remembers that we are flesh and that flesh is weak. "I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him," (Is. 57:19). 
Amen!

Reading: Is. 57:15-21
Ref: HG SB
                                                                   May God Bless You
                                                                    And Your Family
                                                              Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.
                                                                The Cross Life Ministry