6 For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God. Isaiah 54:6 KJV
The Lord calls us in our brokenness, not when we are prideful. As we are all children of God who have been “forsaken,” and “grieved in spirit,” “a wife of youth, ” and who “wast refused,” the Lord then calls us.
There are those of us who have or were “left destitute” [from “forsaken” (1)] and “refused” [from “forsaken” (1)] by many people. There are those of us who have been “grieved in spirit” or left “to worry” [from “grieved” (1)”] in our tempest [from “spirit” (1)] or “storm” [from “tempest” (2)] experience. There are those of us, male or female, who have experienced that of “a wife of youth” or as the tempestuous challenge of a young woman, a “cast away” [ from “refused” (1)] of society who “wast refused” or despised [from “refused” (1)] by some. As such in these experiences we become broken or emotionally “shattered,” [from “broken” (2)], and at the point where one looks for consolation in something.
It is at this point of weakness where Christ calls us. To be called is to be “invited” [from called (1)] to a full life in the image of Christ, to “preach” [from “called” (1)] the Word of God, and to pronounce [from “called” (1)] or “to state in an official or solemn way” [from “pronounce” (2)] God’s precepts or “command” [from “precept” (2)]. We have to be “called” at our weakest point so that God can mold us from our negative emotions into positive actions of love, i.e. into a renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2).
God is in control of everything, and calls us to love Him, His Word, ourselves, and others in the Way of the Cross!
(1) The New Strong’s Concordance Of The Bible, by James Strong, LL.D., S.T.D.
(2) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Brenda A. McGee has attended New York Theological Seminary in New York, NY, and Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA as a Master of Divinity student.