Isaiah 55

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Isaiah 55:1-13 (KJV) 

1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 

The invite is so appealing and exciting!  Anyone who is thirsty can be anyone.  God is inviting anybody, you did not have to be rich, famous, broke, defeated, and so on.  The one thing He said to anyone who is thirsty.  A thirsty person must have something to drink.  We can live without food for a few days but water is a must.  He said come to the waters, which can mean, I have plenty of it!  I have water galore.   Come if you have no money come and buy....wait a minute, how can you buy without money?  I looked up the word buy trying to see if there was another meaning because I understood buy to mean; to purchase.  

If God is saying come without money and buy, is He going to give me some money once I get there to make a purchase?  If that were the case, He would have said come and I will pay for what you want to buy.

I tried to think and even googled for help to understand what I wanted to know. I paused and I was left with a blank thought, but then I thought of buying time.  I asked how do you buy time?  I searched online for the meaning of buying time.  It does not mean you need money, so how can I use this phrase and gain an understanding of buying without money.

If I am buying time,  I am lingering around, I am waiting, I am not moving, so I leave this verse believing that when God asked us to come, He meant, hang out with me, relax and just stay as long as needed.   I believe that it was the Holy Spirit who gave me this understanding.  If He tells me otherwise, I will rejoice in knowing that is a way to view what I understand now.

2 Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 

God is saying to me, why do you spend money for the invisible never satisfying results of things?  God clears up our idea of what our money can do for us and how we use it.  My money is not enough to pay for what God has to give.  What it cost to gain God's goods is to stay with Him.  Want what He offers.  If we were to purchase with our money, who has enough, and what currency has the greater value?  ( different currency has different values at times.). God is saying listen closely to me, and eat.  What God gives is good and it fills the thirst from the tongue to the soul with delicious calories.  He did not subtract calories because what He serves can be good for and good to anyone who is thirsty enough to let Him quench your thirst.

3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David. 

Draw near to me and listen closely.  Listen and your soul will never die.  What I promise you through My Word is forever.  The same message I gave David is also yours if you want it.

4 Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 

David is my witness.  He was king, and if I gave David my Word, I will also give it to you.  It was not because of His status, that I gave; I will give those of you who want Me the same exact promise that was suitable for the king of Judah.  If David is accustomed to the finest given by men, How can you compare what I being God will give to David and all like him? 

5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

You will be treated so well until nations will come after you.  I will place you high enough and make you so attractive until it will make others who never heard of Me want to meet Me because of you.

 6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 

There will be a day my offer will expire.  So come now, while I am begging you.

7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 

Adam is the father of all mankind.  When Adam sinned, all in him became sinners.  When God says return to Me, it is because all of us were in Adam and all of us now have our separate opportunity to return to the state God made in Adam before Adam chose to sin.

8 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 

Come back to Me says the Lord.  I do not think like you do.  Come close enough to Me to listen to what I have on My mind when I speak to you.  The further you are away from me, the harder it is to understand Me.

9 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 

I want God's thoughts.  God's thoughts does not sound like mine, nor does His thought sound like it was manmade.  Who on earth tells me to love my enemies?  Who invites me to a special occasion and says I can come without money? or a gift?

10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 

11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. 

Just like rain when it falls, it falls for a purpose to give you bread to eat from the grains it waters in the field.  The rain does not fall and the fallen rain returns to the cloud to entertain you.  So are the Words in My mouth.  What I say will accomplish what I said when I said it. If I said you will love what I provide, you will love what I provide.

12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands.

Although you can come to Me, you will have to leave also.  But, when you leave, you will not leave like you came.  You will sing, you will sing with joy, the hills will sing too and the trees of the field will clap their hands.  To see a hill sing and a tree in the field clap is amazing to my thoughts.

13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off.

You will change the world when you spend time with Me, says the Lord.  You will represent Me and it will be an honor to be Your God having people who now do the things that are right because of Me.