God's Restoration of All Humanity

Creation: A Divine Cycle
Praise from and for God's Creation

Praise God the Provider

Isaiah 66:18-23. The Message

18-21 “I know everything they’ve ever done or thought. I’m going to come and then gather everyone—all nations, all languages. They’ll come and see my glory. I’ll set up a station at the center. I’ll send the survivors of judgment all over the world: Spain and Africa, Turkey and Greece, and the far-off islands that have never heard of me, who know nothing of what I’ve done nor who I am. I’ll send them out as missionaries to preach my glory among the nations. They’ll return with all your long-lost brothers and sisters from all over the world. They’ll bring them back and offer them in living worship to God. They’ll bring them on horses and wagons and carts, on mules and camels, straight to my holy mountain Jerusalem,” says God. “They’ll present them just as Israelites present their offerings in a ceremonial vessel in the Temple of God. I’ll even take some of them and make them priests and Levites,” says God.
22-23 “For just as the new heavens and new earth
    that I am making will stand firm before me”
        —God’s Decree—
“So will your children
    and your reputation stand firm.
Month after month and week by week,
    everyone will come to worship me,” God says.

For Reflection

What is it about God's word that can call all peoples to inhabit a world full of the wisdom of love?  The world yearns for justice that is not brought by retribution and violence.  The world yearns for justice.  "Justice is love distributed."*

That is God's Glory, God's promise of hope in a collaborative loving relationship with God and with each other.  God's promised blessing is inclusiveness, equity, and commitment to the common good.

Pray

Pray for the reigniting of the common good brought not by the rule of retribution but by the rule of love.


*Bouma, Gary; Jim Burklo; John Dominic Crossan; Margaret Mayman; Paul Alan Laughlin; Nigel Leaves. Why Weren't We Told? (Kindle Locations 1927-1928). Polebridge Press. Kindle Edition.