Full Fulfillment, and More

"I will bring them home from the land of Egypt, and gather them from Assyria, and I will bring them to the land of Gilead and Lebanon, till there is no room for them." Zechariah 10:10

Yesterday, I totally failed to look to God and seek Him before all things. I ended up wasting hours on the internet because I didn't "feel good." Woke up this morning pretty disappointed in myself, and wanted to continue to dwell in my sin and skip class just because I'm sick.

I read over Zechariah 9 and 10 for almost half an hour, wasn't sure what God was trying to say, because Zechariah is filled with prophesies and post millennial eschatological crazy stuff that I don't really get. But this verse spoke of Egypt...and I remember that Egypt often represented a place that the Israelites didn't want to be. And so for me, Egypt was this sin that I wanted to leave behind for good.

Later, I also learned that this verse was speaking of God's fulfillment of His Palestian covenant, where God promises to bring the scattered Israelites back into the land that He promised. Not only does God promise to bring the Israelites back home, but it says that the lands will be filled until there is no more room. This reminded me that 1) GOD is the one who delivers, and that 2) He fulfills His promises of deliverance to the MAX.

Thus, taking the full fulfillment idea to heart, I knew that I really had to turn back to God, believing that Jesus is the only one who could completely and abundantly meet my hopes and needs, and obviously not my sin. Spent an hour after my 8am just praying today. Haven't done that for so long. I encourage you to do the same. It does wonders. Today was such an AWESOME DAY even though all I really did was go to class for many many hours. But my heart was a lot more whole despite the snot, sneezes, and coughing seizures. =)