Isa 54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your habitations; do not spare; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. Isa 54:3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.
Jerusalem has been compared to a barren woman who was going to have children ( Isa 54:1). And because the children of the barren woman will be many, they will need to occupy more space. The enlarged family must have more space to live in. After restoration, Jerusalem will be full of inhabitants, stretching it’s boundaries!
” Enlargement” is an encouragement to think big, dream big and get a bigger perspective. Stretching involves getting past our current limits. To ” lengthen” is to go further in out put and effort. To ” strengthen ” is basically to make it strong or firm. In order to enlarge, you must foresee that which is yet to be seen.
All these involves getting past our current limits. Yahweh is bringing us to a more spacious place( Rehoboth) that can accommodate more blessing. Enlargement requires us to get out of our “small boxes”, our small routines, our small thinking and our limited view of God.( Jentezen Franklin) . This is the season for stretching, lengthening and strengthening.
Further readings:
Gen 26:22
Isa 26:15
Isa 49:19,20
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