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Isaiah chapter 15 verse 5.

My heart cries out for Moab.

Her fugitives flee to Zohar, to Eglath Shalishia.

This verse is a powerful picture of the heart of God.

Even as he is walking through these oracles and pronouncements of judgment on different

nations and places.

Here in verse 5 of Isaiah 15, you see God's heart crying out for Moab as fugitives flee.

It's basically a picture of refugees

leaving their homeland with nothing.

As I read this verse, I just think about the world we live in today and the number of refugees

in the world fleeing their homeland with nothing.

One of the most sobering moments I can remember is walking through

a refugee camp in the middle of the Syrian refugee crisis and seeing all these families

and little kids, intense in the mud and freezing cold,

looking for a place where they can find safety,

having left everything in their homeland with nothing but a bag in their

hands with a few things they were able to bring, having tracked miles and miles and miles by foot, and not

knowing where they were going, this particular setting, they were stuck.

And I think about that multiplied over in the lives of millions of

people from places like Syria or Afghanistan or think about wars today, Ukrainian refugees. Think about

hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza right now as they're fleeing their homeland.

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