Behold the Lord will come,
and all his holy ones with him,
and on that day
there will be a great light.
The first reading for this Tuesday in the First Week of Advent is of the first ten verses of Chapter 11 of the prophet Isaiah. I encourage you to get out your Bible and read it prayerfully.
Isaiah describes the coming of One who is a shoot from the stump of Jesse. He will be filled with God's Spirit - a Spirit of wisdom and understanding, a Spirit of counsel and strength, a Spirit of knowledge and fear of the Lord.
When this One comes things will never be the same - "the wolf will be the guest of the lamb", "the leopard shall lie down with the kid", "the calf and the young lion shall browse together" ... "with a little child to guide them".
We are not there as yet, for we have not given our lives totally to the One who was promised, the One who has come, the One who will create anew what was lost to sin and the One who will come again. So we wait and hope and trust and follow Him.
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