But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Galatians 5:22-23.

The Lord delights in those who fear Him, who put their hope in His unfailing love. Psalm 147:11.

As I was driving yesterday, I heard the song, I Was Made for More. As we get stuck in the land of fear, doubt, anger, resentment…darkness…remember we are loved by Creator God…Father…Son…Spirit, who knows our fears, our doubts, our anger, our resentment…and that there is so much more for us that is good with His love and help. He is not the one who hurts us. We hurt ourselves and others. And He is ready when our need drives us to Him.

And in our chapter, Isaiah 10, we again find this verse: Yet for all this, His anger is not turned away, His hand is still upraised. v. 4. Why? Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless…Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of My anger, in whose hand is the club of My wrath! I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger Me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets. But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations…When the Lord has finished all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes. For he says, ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, because I have understanding.’”…v. 1-2, 5-7, 12-13. Can we not see the harm we cause when we are filled with pride? Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it?…In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel. A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to the Mighty God…v. 15, 20, 21.

A remnant. In every age of mankind there is a remnant of those faithful to Almighty Creator God. Who, with God’s help, realize we are made for so much more than the emptiness of life lived without God. Instead of pride and haughty eyes and relying on ourselves, we long for the fruit of the Spirit only God can give. Whether in Isaiah’s time or our time today, what is most needed is a personal relationship with God who loves us. The world can’t tell you that because it doesn’t know. Why read Scripture? Because there you find barriers of time removed. We are no different from our ancestors. Our God made us for more and we can live into it today with Him guiding us. I was made for more and so were you.