Skip to main content

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”

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

258. "Remember, Always Remember!"

Exodus 12:1-30 Key Verse: "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord a lasting ordinance." Exodus 12:14 "Celebrate the feast of unleavened bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come." (Exodus 12:17) "And when your children ask you, "What does this ceremony mean to you?" then tell them, "It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when He struck down the Egyptians." (Exodus 12:27) The original act was an act of worship as the first true act of freedom for the people of Israel. They had been brought to Egypt by Joseph during a time of famine so that through Joseph God could preserve their lives. ( Genesis 37 , & 39-50 ) After Joseph died, however, instead of heading back to C...
Post a Comment
Read more

This Little Light of Mine

Scripture: Psalm 130 Listen Link: www.lcepc.org then look for “sermons” tab. It’s the first Sunday of Advent. Today we lit one candle and heard the passage, in Isaiah 9, about the great light! We have heard that the great light is the child born to us on Christmas day. It is Jesus, Emmanuel, God with us. Christmas is a day we will truly celebrate as we have for years and years, and our ancestors before us for centuries. Christmas is coming! Advent means coming! It is good to spend the next few weeks reflecting on all that it means for us. We begin from the depths of darkness. The world is still suffering the effects of sin. We are still suffering the effects of a world broken by sin. And not just the consequences of our own sins. According to Romans 8:22, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” The fires in California, the floods and storms on the East coast, and all the other natural disasters we hear ab...
Post a Comment
Read more

August 13 What Is Fitting

It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury—how much less for a slave to rule over princes! ~Proverbs 19:10   On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, “This is the voice of a god, not of a man!” Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died. ~Acts 12:21-23  Wow! Well, what in the world can there be to benefit us here? First of all, perhaps we should review the first Biblical definition of a fool, penned by no other than Solomon’s Father, David himself. “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” (Psalm 14:1 and Psalm 53:1) It is not fitting for the fool to live the blessed life. Why should they when they deny from whom all blessings flow?  King Herod was a fool. Now, just to be clear, this is not the Herod who ruled at Jesus’ birth and ordered the slaughter of the male children in Bethlehem. He ...
Post a Comment
Read more