Invitation To Wonder

A Few years ago some one asked me:  “How do we know what God truly wants?  And as I read these words from Isaiah I thought: It is pretty clear what God want.

In Isaiah God’s vision was spoken: A vision of creation where the lamb and the lion (wolves) lie down in peace together.  

Imagine

The wildest of beast together with the gentlest of beast. 

A vision of the impossible? 

Check out the two passages below from Isaiah nine and eleven.

⁵ For all the boots of the tramping warriors

   and all the garments rolled in blood

   shall be burned as fuel for the fire. 

⁶ For a child has been born for us,

   a son given to us;

authority rests upon his shoulders;

   and he is named

Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God,

   Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 

⁷ His authority shall grow continually,

   and there shall be endless peace (Isaiah 9)

⁶ The wolf shall live with the lamb,

   the leopard shall lie down with the kid,

the calf and the lion and the fatling together,

   ..and a little child shall lead them. 

⁷ The cow and the bear shall graze,

   their young shall lie down together;

   and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 

⁸ The nursing child shall play over the hole of the asp,

   and the weaned child shall put its hand on the adder’s den. 

⁹ They will not hurt or destroy

   on all my holy mountain;

for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord

   as the waters cover the sea.(Isaiah 11)

Now, use your imagination to wonder.

Wonder about:

⁹ They will not hurt or destroy

   on all my holy mountain;

for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord

   as the waters cover the sea.

Wonder about:

⁶ The wolf shall live with the lamb,

   the leopard shall lie down with the kid,

the calf and the lion and the fatling together,

   ..and a little child shall lead them.

Wonder about:

⁷ His authority shall grow continually,

   and there shall be endless peace

What God wants is clear to me. Then God came in Jesus’s skin to make it perfectly clear.  

God wants people to live in peace.

What are you thinking?