God is in the Bringing Back Business

Is. 35:10 "and the ransomed of the Lord will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighning will flee away."

Is 60:4-5 "Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the arm. - Then you will look and be radiant, your heart will throb and swell with joy; the wealth on the seas will be brought to you, to you the riches of the nations will come."

God desires to bring his people back. But not back to what they think or want. God will not be put in a box. He's bringing his people back to true holiness and devotion. To a place of true communion with him. A place where we can dwell in the intimacy and splendor of His glory.

Moses was sent to bring God's people back to the promised land. Back to the place God intended for them from the start.

We are not to look back at a season or experience in our lives and desire for God to bring us to that. We are to look forward to the glory of God and the promised land that God intended for us from the beginning and desire for God to bring us back to that.

Look forward and ask God to bring you back to that!

Joseph (a symbol of Jesus) was pleased to go through what he went through in order to bring his family back. However, Joseph did not lead them back to the physical promised land (Canaan), but to Egypt. This is another example of God not being confined to a box. God's idea of bringing us back may be to pass us through Egypt.

We must come to a place where our desire is for God to bring us back into his purposes and not confine him to our idea of what that looks like.

Bring me back Jesus! Bring me back to your promised land; not my idea of it!

Jesus came to bring us back. He is happy to have gone through what He went through for us in order to bring us back into His plan. May we not confine him into our intellectual boxes or preconceived boxes and allow him the joy of completing what he came to start. What he came to bring us back to.