Meditation

Hi there,

Today's passage completes the reading from Isaiah 11, envisaging a complete transformation of all nature, with animals and humans alike living in harmony with each other.

In Genesis 9:2-3, the Lord gave Noah, and all mankind permission to eat meat. At the same time, He put the dread of man in animals, so they would not be effortless prey for humans.

Now, in the reign of the Messiah, everything is wonderfully reversed. The "knowledge of the Lord" suffuses all of life governing all relationships with a widespread understanding of God and living in submission to His Son bringing long-awaited peace and unity to the world.

Today's passage is Isaiah 11: 6-9

Isaiah 11

And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

2 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth:

6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den.

9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

Encouragement

Our future hope is of a pervasive peace that transforms not only us as individuals but the whole of the natural world we inhabit.

For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.

Romans 8:19-21

Andy

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