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359. What His Rule Will Be Like!

Isaiah 11:1-10 & Isaiah 35
Key Verse:  “Righteousness will be His belt and faithfulness the sash around His waist.”
Isaiah 11:5

One can’t help but think of the Garden of Eden when reading these passages from Isaiah.  What Isaiah describes must be how it was originally intended to be. How wonderful that the God of Hope gives us the hope that, in time, it will be that way again.

When Christ our King sits on the throne, He will rule with true justice. He will not need to depend upon witnesses or even His own eyes and ears because He knows all truth and will judge accordingly. When He judges, we will all know that His judgments are right. We will be able to have complete trust in His decisions for they will all be fair and right. And life will be as it was intended to be in the beginning.

The lion will lay with the lamb. The child will lead the beast without fear. The blind will see, the deaf will hear and the lame will walk free from crippling conditions.

The needy will no longer be oppressed. Their judge will defend and protect them. There will no longer be anything to fear.

“A highway will be there; it will be called the way of holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in The Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.” (Is.35:8)  What a reverse from life as we know it now where the way of righteousness is narrow and the way to destruction is broad. (Matthew 7:13) In God’s kingdom the wicked won’t even be allowed on the road. We will be free to walk toward Holiness without fear of distractions that rob us of knowing that joy on earth now.

When Jesus reigns, life will be so much the reverse of what we know now. He created the rules for us to live by, but in our sin, we spend a lifetime doing the reverse. When His Kingdom is finally established, He will finally have His way and we will all be blessed because of it. Best of all, His Kingdom is an eternal one. The enemy is defeated so we need not even fear being tempted to sin and begin this whole cycle over again. “Hallelujah and Amen!” 

Hymn:  “Lead On O King Eternal”

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