Good day, this is Michael De Rosa and I am in Isaiah 2:1-4
2 The word which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
Now it will come about that
In the last days
The mountain of the house of the Lord
Will be established as the chief of the mountains,
And will be raised above the hills;
And all the nations will stream to it.
3 And many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
That He may teach us concerning His ways
And that we may walk in His paths.”
For the law will go forth from Zion
And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And He will judge between the nations,
And will render decisions for many peoples;
And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not lift up sword against nation,
And never again will they learn war.
This passage paints a picture of safety and peace during God reign in this World.
And, while we all want such peace, many people live with an angst because we have chosen to shun God’s way to obtain such tranquility.
Namely, we institute laws and mete out justice in order to do our best to have our communities be safe and peace-filled places to live. Yet, that very government we have set up will change at the next election when the former ways of politics give way to a new politic. And, what escapes us, or is dismissed by us is that lasting peace and safety will come not at the hands of our own ingenuities, which at best are tainted with one too many prejudices.
The only way to lasting tranquility will be when God reigns.
Now this is one of the great tensions throughout the book of Isaiah: namely, man’s freedom to choose God’s ways or not.
Isaiah paints a graphic picture of the consequences for doing both. What do you choose today?
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