RESTORATION

Psalm 23:1-3 NKJV The Lord is my shepherd;I shall not want. 2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. 3 He restores my soul;

This is a lovely path in a nearby park where you can wander under the shade of the towering trees. Sometimes our souls need places like that to unwind and sense the presence of God walking beside us.

Psalm 23 talks about the Lord leading us in paths of righteousness and goes on to say He restores our souls which we all need whether we acknowledge it or not.😊

Maybe you can’t get out to walk in soothing places, but perhaps your soul restoring spot is a favourite arm chair, but wherever it is God is giving us all an invitation to His Soul Restoration Workshop whenever we need it.

Psalm 51:12 talks about God restoring the joy of His salvation to us and granting us a willing spirit to sustain us. How much we need those restoring as well!

In Matthew 11:28-30 Jesus talks about giving us rest for our souls when we simply come to Him. He doesn’t ask us to come and try to pray when we’re exhausted, or put on a brave face, or to wear a mask of pretending to be something we’re not. He just says come and let Him do the rest. 

God is in the restoring business, whether it’s our health, our minds, our relationships, our finances, our emotions, our strength - you name it - God wants to restore it. He says He will restore the years that the locusts have eaten (Joel 2:25–26 ESV), in other words He even restores our wasted years.

God is so generous He even promises double restoration! Zechariah 9:12 ESV Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

Jesus is our Good Shepherd the Restorer of our souls and we probably all need something restoring in our lives so maybe it’s time to book ourselves into God’s restoration workshop today. I know we won’t regret it.😊 Amen.