Today's Scripture
New Heavens and Earth – Isaiah 65:17- 25
TODAY’S READING SCHEDULE: Isaiah 64-66
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem
and take delight in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;
the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[c] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord,
they and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call I will answer;
while they are still speaking I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
What does this passage mean to me/us
God’s love toward this nation is promised through the prophecy of the new kingdom.
The kingdom wasn’t reestablished as the Isrealites dreamt, but it is the new kingdom to come.
Where there is no agony and pain.
Peace will pour out in the gathering of the people, and they will learn true harmony.
That is the hope of the new kingdom.
Until we see that kingdom come, what is God calling us to do?
In our best ability, the build that kingdom ‘on earth as it is in heaven.’
Prayer
Lord, may your kingdom come, may your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. In Christ name, AMEN.
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