God is a God of restoration. Psalm 23:3 says, “He restores my soul.” Isaiah 58:12 says He is the, “Repairer of the Breach, The Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.” Joel 2:25 says He will “restore the years.” He restores our souls, our lives, our relationships, our families, and our past.
The word “restore” means to: ” to rebuild, to turn back but not necessarily with the idea of returning to the starting point but rather to build better than what was at the start or beginning, bring back again, come again, recall, recompense, recover, refresh, relieve, render again, requite, rescue, retrieve, return, reverse, reward, set again, give back, to be one’s self again.”
God restores.
It’s interesting to note in the book of Nehemiah, a book about restoration and rebuilding broken, desolate places, that at the time when the people went back to Jerusalem to rebuild the city and the temple under the leadership of Nehemiah and Ezra, the high priest was a man named Elyashib whose name means “God restores.”
The Bible says of him, “Then Eliashib the high priest and the other priests started to rebuild at the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set up its doors, building the wall as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and the Tower of Hananel,” Nehemiah 3:1.
They will rebuild!
Isaiah 61:4 says, “They will rebuild the ancient ruins. They will restore the places destroyed long ago. They will renew the ruined cities, the places destroyed generations ago.”
This means that you beloved, just the like Eliashib in the people of Israel in day, can rebuild the ancient ruins, places destroyed long ago, the ruins and the destruction passed on by former generations in your life and the lives of other people once you have been restored.
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