Justice and the Prophets
Called to God's Work of Justice
Live in the light of God (Isaiah 2:5)
A Vision of Restoration
Deuteronomy 30:1-7 The Message
30 1-5 Here’s what will happen. While you’re out among the nations where God has dispersed you and the blessings and curses come in just the way I have set them before you, and you and your children take them seriously and come back to God, your God, and obey him with your whole heart and soul according to everything that I command you today, God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he’ll have compassion on you; he’ll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered. No matter how far away you end up, God, your God, will get you out of there and bring you back to the land your ancestors once possessed. It will be yours again. He will give you a good life and make you more numerous than your ancestors.
6-7 God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children’s hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. God, your God, will put all these curses on your enemies who hated you and were out to get you.
For Reflection
When I took this photo, the man was asleep. But the fact that it was after 11:00 pm and he sat alone in a mostly deserted area in the harbor spoke to me. Was he just tired, or was he more deeply troubled, alone, and hopeless? Hope is both the result of a restored life but also the cause of a transformed understanding of suffering and confidence in tomorrow. While many try to escape the pain of troubled living with drugs, alcohol, accumulation of things or power, nothing but hope that is rooted in faith will experience the peace that we all seek.
Pray
Pray so that you can experience the blessing of hope-filled living. Pray for the wisdom of God leads you to expect good tomorrows.
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