One is calling to me from Seir,
“Watchman, what time of the night?
Watchman, what time of the night?”
The watchman says:
“Morning comes, and also the night.
If you will inquire, inquire;
come back again.” Isaiah 21: 11, 12
All the scary stories that point accusing fingers at the hateful, vengeful Old Testament God miss a major point, the Jonah point. (“And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”) This is the God who stops at nothing to bring back His people, the work of His hands. Even as the breaking dawn of justice reaches up past the dark horizon, He is pleading, “Come back, come back.”
May I be filled with the same mercy today as I wend my through life, filled with His people, the work of His hand.
ah... a reminder as to what is true... So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:12-13
ReplyDelete.... reading The Hobbit outloud to Simone and Everette... :)