What stands between you and God?

Isaiah 59:1-2
Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened,
That it cannot save;
Nor His ear heavy,
That it cannot hear.
But your iniquities have separated you from your God;
And your sins have hidden His face from you,
so that He will not hear.

Why is it that when things do not go our way, when prayers seem unanswered and obstacles in our lives are not moved we blame God? Why do we suppose that He is not loving enough to act, just enough to intercede, powerful enough to move or merciful enough to understand?
What separates us from God and His blessing is not God nor any lack in His nature but our own sin and our sinful nature. Even our thinking is broken so that we cannot see or understand our predicament.
Therefore God in His rich mercy and love, demonstrating divine justice and infinite power, reaches into our world and accomplishes salvation by His own hand.

Isaiah 59:15b-17
Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him
That there was no justice.
¹⁶ He saw that there was no man,
And wondered that there was no intercessor;
Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him;
And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
¹⁷ For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal as a cloak.

In love He extended His own arm. God sent His Son Jesus to be the intercessor and Savior or the world.
In mercy Jesus placed Himself beneath the wrath of God, our substitute.
At the cross the justice of God was fully satisfied being fully paid by Jesus Christ on our behalf.
At the grave His power was demonstrated; proving that He has the power to not only raise His Son from the dead, but us as well.

The Lord's hand is not too short not His ear too dull.
He has already removed every barrier from between us and patiently waits for us to receive His gifts of love, mercy, justice and power.

Have you received these gifts? Have you received the gift of Jesus?