Let's open the scriptures to
Isaiah chapter 30. The book of Isaiah chapter 30. This last Wednesday evening I
read a verse at the end of the message and I've just I've been
arrested by this verse. It just has captured my attention. And I ask God that He would bless
you from these few remarks on this scripture. Isaiah chapter
30 verse 18. Our subject is waiting to be
gracious. Waiting to be gracious. Isaiah 30, 18, and therefore
will the Lord wait that He may be gracious unto you. And therefore, because He is gracious
unto you, will He be exalted, that He may have mercy upon you. And then there's a statement
that God the Spirit led Isaiah to write that to the natural
mind seems out of place. But it isn't out of place. It's
just where it ought to be. He says, for the Lord is a God
of judgment. The Lord is a God of justice. And then the verse winds up this
way. Blessed are all they that wait
for Him. I'll give you a little background
information on this chapter and on the one before this because
actually Isaiah chapters 29 and 30 should be read and studied together. King Hezekiah, he's the king
of Judah, and the Lord had raised up some pagans to threaten the
Jews. He raised up the Assyrians, and
they were about to invade Jerusalem. the capital city of Judah, the
southern kingdom. These Assyrians, they had already
destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel and the capital city
of Samaria. And now they set their sights
on the southern kingdom. And to them, they think it will
be easy pickings. They'll be able to conquer them. Now what you need to understand
is, this movement of the Assyrian army and their king, this was
all due to the purpose of God. In other words, little did they
realize it, little did King Sennacherib realize it, or anybody, any of
his generals or any of his armies and so forth, but it's the Lord
who's behind this. You see how God governs all things,
even the actions and the activities of the wicked. And they are all
under His authority. Because God is, quite frankly,
directing everything to the end that He has already appointed.
In old eternity, before God made the world and those things that
are in the world, God ordained everything that would be, And
He ordained the end of everything that would be. And that includes
all of the actions, all of the activities of the wicked as well
as the righteous. And He raises up these wicked
ones, these pagans, these idolaters. He raised them up and He set
their faces against Judah. And the reason the Lord did that
and the reason for this impending invasion against Jerusalem and
against Judah, the reason the Lord had the Assyrians to be
a thorn in the side of the Jews was because the worship of God,
the worship of Jehovah had ceased to be heart worship and had ceased
to be according to the truth. Real religion, God's religion,
God's truth, it had slipped into ritualism and ceremonialism and
to formalism. Go back into chapter 29 and verse
13. And this is a scripture that
our brother read to us as our Lord quoted when He spoke to
the Pharisees. Chapter 29, verse 13, For as much as this people draw
near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me,
but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward
me is taught by the precept of men, Therefore, behold, I will
proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous
work and a wonder, for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid." Their
worship had degenerated in the ceremonialism. All the people
continued with their outward devotions. They still offered
their sacrifices. They still observed their Sabbath
days. They still went through the motions
of the feast days and the holy days that God ordained in the
Levitical law. But there was no heart worship.
There was no faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. There was no looking
to God's Son, the great Messiah, for salvation. There was no expectation
of a Savior to save them from their spiritual enemies. There
was no realization of the awfulness of sin. There was no realization
of the necessity of righteousness before God. God's very truth
had been replaced by error. And that which must come forth
from the heart, that is worship, it had degenerated into ritualism
and mere formality. Just going through the motions
of religion is all it was. It was a bunch of hypocrisy as
our Lord said there in Matthew chapter 15 as He quoted these
verses from Isaiah chapter 29. And of course throughout the
book of Isaiah, God's prophet is led to rebuke the Jews for
their heartless worship which God absolutely despises. He despises a formality of worship
without the heart and without the truth. Go back to Isaiah
chapter 1. Let me show you this. And I'll
just read a few verses to you. First of all in Isaiah chapter
1 beginning at verse number 10. Isaiah chapter 1, and I'm going
to go to the first chapter of Isaiah, then I'm going to go
to the last chapter of Isaiah to show you this. But it goes
all the way through the book. God rebukes them for their, for
deserting His Word. And for just going through the
motions of religion, no heart worship, no understanding of
the gospel, no thoughts about God, no consideration of the
seriousness of eternity and the seriousness of approaching God
by means of a blood sacrifice, those things just sort of went
out the window. And they just went through the
motions of religion. Okay, it's the Sabbath day, it's
the time to go through the activities of the Sabbath. Okay, here's
another feast day worth to observe. So we'll observe these, but there
was no hard worship. There was no recognition of the
greatness of God, and the glory of God, and the majesty of God. There was no bowing before the
Lord. There was no honoring of Him
in their heart. There was no looking forward
to the Messiah. There was no looking forward
to the Redeemer who would come to pay the sin debt of His people.
None of that was present. All of those things were absent. But they kept up their ceremonies. Oh yes. Isaiah chapter 1 in verse
10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye
rulers of Sodom. Give ear unto the law of our
God, ye people of Gomorrah. And our Lord likens the Jews
to being like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, who were, according
to the book of Ezekiel, a very proud people and arrogant people. And God says, to what purpose
is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? Oh, they still shed
the blood. But they saw no worth, they saw
no value in the blood, and they didn't see in the blood a picture
of the blood, the substitutionary work and the sacrifice of the
Lord Jesus Christ. They miss redemption. They miss
salvation. He says this, I am full of the
burnt offerings of Rams. And if you've studied about the
Old Testament worship of God, and especially in the book of
Leviticus, the burnt offering, that's the very basis of their
worship. You can't draw near to God except by means of an
innocent victim dying in the stead of the guilty. The burnt
offerings, read about them there at the beginning in Leviticus
chapter 1. But God says, I am full of the
burnt offerings of rams. But Lord, you appointed those
burnt offerings. Hang on. And the fat of fed beasts. He said, I delight not in the
blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats. When you come
to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand to
tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations."
They were empty. Empty of life, empty of worship,
empty of seriousness, empty of spirituality. He says incense
is an abomination to me. The new moons, the Sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with them. It is iniquity. That's all it is. It's just iniquity. Even the solemn meeting, your
new moons and your appointed feasts, God says, my soul hateth. They are a trouble to me. And God speaks in languages that
they could understand. He says, I'm weary to bear them.
I'm tired of them. And He says, when you spread
forth your hands, I'll hide my eyes from you. Yea, when you
make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of
blood. That's heartless religion. Go
over to chapter 66. Chapter 66. Look at verse 1, Thus saith the
Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Isaiah 66, verse 1. He says,
Where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place
of my rest? For all those things hath mine
hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord. But
to this man will I look. even to him that is poor and
of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. O God, therefore,
we pray, break our hearts. Break our hearts. Bring us low. Bring us down to your feet. Make
me to tremble before your word. Those who are poor and needy
who come to Him with a contrite heart and tremble at His Word.
That's the one God looks to. Oh God, create such a heart within
me. Break me. And I tell you, we
need to be broken, don't we? We need broken hearts before
God. Man is by nature arrogant and
haughty and proud. And we think we are somebody.
We think the whole world revolves around us. Oh God show us we're
nothing and Christ is everything. He's everything. Break us. Break
us. He says in verse 3, He that killeth
an ox is as if he slew a man. And he that sacrifices the lamb,
it's as if he cut off a dog's neck. And he that offers an oblation,
it's as if he offers pig's blood, swine blood. He that burneth
incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their
own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. We've
chosen our own ways. That's the problem. Oh God, break
us and bring us into Thee way. Bring us into the way of life,
the way of salvation, the way of righteousness. Bring us to
Jesus Christ who is Himself the way, the truth, and the life,
and no man cometh unto the Father but by Him. Now you listen to
me, nothing is more obnoxious and revolting to our God than
empty, vain, religious, ritualism. Beware of that religion that
doesn't give God all the glory. All the glory in creation, all
the glory in divine providence, and all the glory in grace. Beware
of it. It's deadly. Beware of religion
that does not abase the sinner. that does not set forth the inability,
the depravity, and the thoroughness of our guilt before God. Beware
of it. Beware of religion that is not
according to the truth, the truth of who God is in all of His glorious
attributes, the truth about ourselves and our spiritual deadness and
filthiness. The truth about salvation altogether
by grace. The truth about salvation conditioned
only upon the obedience unto death of the Lord Jesus Christ. The truth about salvation by
the blood. Salvation by imputed righteousness. Beware of that religion which
does not put at the forefront substitution and satisfaction. Beware of religion. Beware of
religion that does not magnify the grace of God from beginning
to end. Beware of religion that exalts
the will of man, or the works of man, or the ways of man, or
the worth of man. Beware of religion that does
not involve and issue forth from the heart. God is spirit. They that worship
Him must, must worship Him in spirit and in truth. There's
no worship without worshiping Him in spirit and in truth. That's by the power of the Holy
Spirit. from our spirit or from within
according to the truth. There is no worship according
to error. I know there are lots of people
gathered in religious establishments today, which I refer to them
as goat pastures. They meet together today, but
not according to truth. Are they sincere? Many of them
are. Just as sincere as we are. But
there's no worship unless it's worship according to the truth.
It just can't be. It just can't be. And there's
no worship that doesn't come forth from the heart according
to the truth. See, it's easy to mouth a few
words of religion. But here's what we need. We need
the gospel of God's grace to be in the heart. To be in the
heart. We need to bow in the heart.
We need to exalt God from the heart. From within. From within. Beware of religion
that does not involve an issue from the heart. Beware of religion
that does not require and is not dependent upon the work of
the Holy Spirit. We got to have the Holy Spirit
to show us Jesus Christ. Somebody asked me not too long
ago, well then what then is the work of the Holy Spirit to show
us Jesus Christ, to lead us to the Savior, to show us in Him
all that we need? Oh, my friends, beware of formalism. and ritualism, just going through
the motions. And it's easy to go through the
motions. And I dare say that most all
of us, maybe, probably all of us have at one time or another
just gone through the motions. We're supposed to be here, we're
supposed to stand up and sing, we're supposed to bow our heads
and we just but your mind's a million miles away. You know what I'm
talking about? You ever been there? Your mind's somewhere
else. And it's our fault, and I don't
offer excuses except to say this, we're just poor rotten sinners.
And it's hard for us to keep our minds on spiritual things.
Oh God, oh God, take a hold of our minds and take a hold of
our hearts and direct us toward Jesus Christ alone, at least
for a few minutes. without distraction. And this
is one of the wonderful things about going to glory, going to
heaven. It'll be worship without distraction.
Won't that be wonderful? Worship without having another
thought about something else. What's going to happen tomorrow?
What's going on in the family? What's going to happen in the
job? What's going on in the political realm? Worship without anything
else intruding into our thoughts and into our hearts. Heaven is
a place of worship. Pure, undefiled, everlasting
worship. That's what heaven is going to
be. Our Lord, He sent these Assyrians
to Judah because of their heartless worship. And it wasn't according
to the truth. Go back to chapter 29. Let me
show you something here. Chapter 29, look at verse 1.
Chapter 29, verse 1. The Lord is speaking to Jerusalem,
but He uses an unusual word here, Eri. He says, Woe unto Ariel,
chapter 29 of Isaiah verse 1. Woe unto Ariel, to Ariel the
city where David dwelt. Add ye year to year, let them
kill sacrifices. The word Ariel means the lion
of God, or the strong lion, the mighty lion of God. That refers
to the strength of the city. The bravery of the city through
the years. This city had been prosperous.
And it was a powerful city. Oh, this is where the temple
of God was. This is where the Holy of Holies
was. This is where God met with men
and men met with God. This is where the mercy seat
was. This is a place of endless sacrifice. This is a place of worship. But
Isaiah has a message of judgment for Ariel, for Jerusalem. Woe
to Ariel! Woe to Ariel! To Ariel, the city
where David dwelt. And ye year to year, year after
year after year, you kill the sacrifices, but your heart's
not in it. You're not looking to Christ. I'll tell you what heartless
religion is. It's to gather here this morning,
and read God's Word and sing these songs and listen to this
message without an eye, without a heart of worship of Jesus Christ
the Lord. That's heartless worship. He
demands your worship and He's worthy of it. He's worthy of
your worship. These are the people to whom
God sends the Assyrians. Look in chapter 30 and verse
1. He describes them. He says, Woe to the rebellious
children. Chapter 30 verse 1. Woe to the
rebellious children, saith the Lord. They take counsel, but
not of me. Not of me. You're listening to
the wrong voices, he says. You take counsel. You take advice. You take instruction. But God
said, it doesn't come from Me. And then He says, in that cover
with a covering, you're going about trying to establish your
own righteousness. But it's not of My Spirit. It's
not the righteousness that the Spirit of God reveals to sinners
that's absolutely necessary, which is the righteousness of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's a self-righteousness. The
self-righteousness. And all they're doing is this.
They're just adding sin to sin. That's all it is. It's just adding
sin to sin. Oh, but I'm here. I'm singing.
I'm praying. I'm giving. I'm attending. I'm
listening. And God says, your heart's not
in it. You're trying to establish a righteousness of your own.
You're just adding sin to sins, all you're doing. Can it be that we are in here
this morning adding sin to sin? If we are not worshipping Jesus
Christ alone, we are. Just adding sin to sin. This is a rebellious people.
Look what he says about them in verse 9. In fact, he says in verse 8,
he tells Isaiah, now go, write it before them on a table or
in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to
come forever and ever. And guess what? It is written
in a book. It's written in the book of God. Well, what are you to write?
What's Isaiah to write? Verse 9, that this is a rebellious
people. lying children. These are children that will
not hear the law of the Lord. Which say to the seers, see not. Which say to the prophets, We
don't want you to prophesy unto us right things. Speak unto us
smooth things. Prophesy deceit. Tickle our ears. We've got itching ears. Tickle
our ears. Say smooth things. Say things that make us feel
good. I want to feel good, preacher. I don't want to go to a church
where I'm made to feel bad. People say, are you preaching
about sin all the time? Makes me feel bad. You're going
to have to feel bad before you're going to feel good in the Lord
Jesus Christ. I'll tell you that. You're going
to be brought down low before He'll ever lift you up. He's
going to strip you of your self-righteousness before He clothes you in the
garments of salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's the
way it works. He says, this is rebellious people.
They don't want to hear my word. They don't want to hear my word,
he says. He says to these Jews who, when they came into danger,
and I don't want to get too deep into the historical part of this,
but you just kind of understand the surface of this. When King
Hezekiah and the rest of the Jews saw, boy, we are in trouble
here, they were running to the Egyptians. The Egyptians, they
will help us. And the Lord says in verse 7,
for the Egyptians, they shall help in vain and to no purpose. No purpose. It is like a sinner. gets a little disturbed about
the judgment, about meeting God, and they just run elsewhere. Nothing else can help you. Formality about religion can't
help you. Trying to keep the law can't
help you. I think I'll join up and get
baptized. It can't help you. It can't help
you. Here's what God says. Their strength,
look at verse 7, the last statement. Their strength is to set still. Set still? Well, that sounds
like do nothing. You see, salvation is of the
Lord. It's all His doings. And it takes
the Spirit of God to convince us and to show us, here's the
only avenue of hope. Set still. It's like Israel at
the Red Sea. What are we going to do? We ain't
got time to build a boat, to sail across the Red Sea, and
here comes Egypt behind us. What should we do? And God told
Moses, tell the people, stand still and see the salvation of
the Lord. And I tell you, sit still. Stop
your doing and your striving and your laboring and your trying
to follow the commandments and do something to please God. Sit
still and listen to the Word of God. Oh, that God would open
up our ears and open up our eyes, open up our minds and open up
our hearts to see Christ is all and salvation is fully in Him.
Fully in Him. What is the sinner to do? To
sit still. Look at verse 15. For thus saith the Lord God,
the Holy One of Israel, in returning and rest shall you be saved. Return to the Lord. Return to
the Scriptures. You will be saved. In quietness
and in confidence, Shall He be your strength? That's what God
says. But you know what the natural
man will say every time? Look at the last statement of
verse 15. And ye would not. That's the way it will always
be. It's like our Lord said to the Jews there in John 5 and
verse 40. And ye would not come to me that
ye might have life. You won't come! Where is salvation to be found?
Where is forgiveness to be found? Where is righteousness to be
found? Where is life to be found? In the Lord Jesus Christ. Sit
still! Sit still and believe Him and
listen to Him! But you wouldn't. And nobody
will. Until invincible, absolutely
conquering grace comes in. That's what we pray for. That's
what we ask God for. I'm not asking you to do something
for God, but I'm sure asking God to do something for you and
me too. Oh Lord, conquer our hearts. Conquer our rebellious
spirits. Give me a new heart, a heart
of faith, a heart of worship to rest in the Lord Jesus Christ
and to see in Him all that God demands and all that God requires
of this poor old helpless sinner. I need Him. Well, then we get down to verses,
look at verse 16. But you said no. And they said,
for we will flee upon horses, therefore shall ye flee. And
they said, we will ride upon the swift, therefore shall they
that pursue you be swift. You wouldn't come to me that
you might have life. Here come the Assyrians. And this is how it is going to
be. He says in verse 17, 1,000 shall flee at the rebuke of one.
One Assyrian soldier is going to come to you and say, Boo!
And 1,000 of them are just going to run. Oh no! We are going to
be conquered. And at the rebuke of five, all
of you are going to flee. That is what He said. Look at
the last part, verse 17. To you be left as a beacon upon
the top of a mountain, as an incense upon a hill. In other
words, God says, I'm going to make an example out of you. This
is what happens to people who don't come to the Lord. You're
going to be like a beacon on top of a hill. God's going to
say, there you go. Here's a defeated nation. Those
that continue in their formality, you won't have the Word of God.
You won't have Jesus Christ. You're not interested in the
grace of God. You just want to keep on with
your ritualism and you're going to try salvation by doing this,
doing that, establishing your own righteousness. You'll be
another failure and I'll set you up as a beacon announcing
to all the world, this is what happens when you try to save
yourself. Absolute failure. But God has a remnant according
to the election of grace and he did back then. He did back
then. And so it says in verse 18, And
therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious. Now
let me tell you quickly, this doesn't mean that God has to
wait for a sinner to give him permission to save him. It doesn't
mean that God has to wait for the sinner to open up his heart
to God before he can do anything. And this is not a waiting due
to divine inability to conquer a rebellious heart. He is the
only one who can conquer a rebellious heart. This is not a waiting
due to divine unwillingness to intervene or interfere with the
free will of man. God is not waiting for you to
give Him permission. And this is not a waiting of
indifference. As if it is of no concern to
the Lord whether you are saved or lost. Let me tell you something,
He has an everlasting love for His covenant people. And they
are saved in Christ Jesus with an everlasting salvation. So
He's not indifferent. And this is not a wading of inactivity. When it says, He waits to be
gracious, understand this, He's always dealt with His people
in a gracious way from old eternity. But He waits to reveal the grace
to us until the appointed time. He waits. He waits. And I'll give you a few things
here briefly. He waits until the sinner is
made by the Spirit of God to know that every other way of
salvation is in vain. It's like the Jews running to
the Egyptians and God said, they can't help you. They can't help
you. Give it a try. They can't help
you. You see, God will not tolerate
a rival. And He will wait until the sinner
is made to realize by the gracious dealings of the Holy Spirit that
the only way of salvation is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. He waits. He waited in sending
His Son. He waited. Adam sinned. Hundreds of years go by. God
waits. He waits to be gracious. A thousand
years go by. Two thousand years go by. Three
thousand years go by. Four thousand years go by. God
waits and then He says, it's due time. And in due time, Christ
died for the ungodly. When the debt of sin became due,
that's when He came. God waited. He waited till the
note was due, till our sin debt was due and payable to His justice. That's when He sent His Son into
the world, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them
that were under the law. He waits. He waits until, He waits to send
His Son until it is obvious to everybody who has good sense that there is no way to be reconciled
to God apart from the death of His Son. He waits. He waits. He waits until the
appointed time to send us a gospel preacher declaring the glad tidings
of salvation by grace alone in Jesus Christ alone. He waits
to send forth His Spirit into our hearts who gives life and
light. He waits until that hour appointed
in old eternity. And then the divine illumination
comes. Go back to chapter 29. Look what
he says in verse 18. This is God's word concerning
the remnant. And in that day, in that day
of grace, And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the
book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and
out of darkness. In that day. In that day. Look at chapter 30 verse 26.
Chapter 30 verse 26, Moreover in this day, in this day of grace,
when God deals with us in the appointed time, moreover the
light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the
light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days. In
the day the Lord bindeth up the breach of the people and healeth
the stroke of their wound. The day of illumination, when
He makes things crystal clear. Oh, now I see. I was blind, but
now I see. I see it's by the blood of the
crucified one. That's how God put my sins away. I see it's by the righteousness
that Jesus Christ established freely imputed to my account. That's why I'm justified. Now
I see what's happened. The light that's brighter than
seven days of sunshine all at once flooded my soul. Now I see. And you'll never see until the
light floods your soul. You'll remain in darkness. In
darkness. He waits. He waits. He waits until the time of love.
You know when it will be when God reveals Christ Jesus to you,
if indeed He reveals Christ Jesus to you? It will be when it pleases
God. That's when it will be. That's
what the Apostle Paul said, when it pleased God who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace. He waits to show us that we're
the objects of His electing love. He waits to reveal to us we're
redeemed by the blood of the Son of God. He waits to show
us the gospel of His grace. He waits to reveal to us the
gospel of imputed righteousness. He waits to the right time to
inform us that our sins, which are many, are all washed away
and they're all forgiven. They're all under the blood,
drowned in Jesus' blood. He waits to show us that we're
bankrupt. Then he tells us, I've given
you the riches of my grace and my son. He waits. And he waits until he makes us
realize the effects of our sin. Like the prodigal son. I want
my inheritance and I want it now. And he went out and wasted
it. He winds up in the pig pen eating slop with the hogs. He says, oh, what a fool I have
been. Man, I am so stupid. I'm going
home. I'm going home. I'm going home
to my father, and I'm going to tell him I'm not worthy to be
your son. I'm so sorry. Just make me as one of your hired
servants. He starts going home and on the
front porch was his father waiting, waiting. And he saw him. He went out and he hugged him
and his son began to make his little speech. And the first
thing the father said was, bring the best robe and put it on him.
That is the robe of the righteousness of Christ Jesus. And put a ring
on his finger. It is one of my children. And
put shoes on his feet, we're shod with the gospel of peace.
And kill the fatted calf. The father already had that calf
fatted. That calf been put up eating
grain, he's already fat. Because he's waiting for that
boy to come home. Let me tell you something, Christ
Jesus has died. And we come to the Lord and we
feast on the riches of His grace. He waits that He may be gracious,
and therefore He is exalted. He waits until we are ready to
say, salvation is of the Lord. He waits until the Spirit of
God convinces us that if I am to be saved, God has got to do
it. He has got to do it all because
I can make no contribution. He waits to hear us say, Lord,
you have got to do the work. That is right. that he may have mercy on you,
for God's a God of judgment. Now he can't show mercy without
satisfaction and justice. Somewhere along the line, people
have got the idea, well, people who go to hell, that's a matter
of justice, and people who go to hell, well, God shows them
mercy. Well, there's mercy involved there, but God shows justice
to everybody Salvation is according to satisfied justice. How can God be just and justify
the undeadly? Through the death of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Substitution. Substitution, that's
the answer. And then he says this. For the Lord God is a God of
judgment. Blessed are all they that wait
for Him. That word wait means long for. And if you put that meaning to
the word at the beginning of the verse, the Lord therefore
will the Lord wait. He longs for His people. He has loved us with an everlasting
love. This is a love that will never
end. He has nothing but thoughts of love and compassion and grace
and kindness toward us. And He longs to bring us to Himself. This is His glory, you see. The
salvation of a sinner by grace through the death of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's God's glory. That's God's
glory. Sovereign grace. That's God's
glory. He has a longing in His heart
for His people. That just kind of blows me away. He has a longing in His heart
for me. And you know what He does to
me? He puts a longing in my soul
for Him. Waiting to be gracious. Waiting to be gracious. Let's
sing our final hymn of the day.