The Wolf and Lamb Live Together

Sustaining Hope
The Days Are Surely Coming
A New Future

Isaiah 11:6-10  The Message

A Living Knowledge of God

^6-9 The wolf will romp with the lamb,
    the leopard sleep with the kid.
Calf and lion will eat from the same trough,
    and a little child will tend them.
Cow and bear will graze the same pasture,
    their calves and cubs grow up together,
    and the lion eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child will crawl over rattlesnake dens,
    the toddler stick his hand down the hole of a serpent.
Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill
    on my holy mountain.
The whole earth will be brimming with knowing God-Alive,
    a living knowledge of God ocean-deep, ocean-wide.

¹⁰ On that day, Jesse’s Root will be raised high, posted as a rallying banner for the peoples. The nations will all come to him. His headquarters will be glorious.

For Reflection

These and the un-cited passages which precede and supersede them are prophesies of the first and second coming of Jesus.  It is through Christ that we know God.  It is through Christ that God's will for human kind is demonstrated.  It is through Christ that the hope of salvation from the constrictions of this world is realized.  It is through Christ that God will be victorious.

Pray

Praise God for his compassionate grace.  Praise God for the gift of Christ.  Praise God for the power of reconciliation.  Praise God for the gates of God's Kingdom are open to all.