The Prince
(Isaiah 9 v 6 - 7)
“A
child will be born to us.
God
will give a son to us.
He
will be responsible for leading the people.
His
name will be Wonderful Counselor, Powerful God,
Father
Who Lives Forever, Prince of Peace.
Power
and peace will be in his kingdom.
He
will rule it forever and ever.
The
Lord of heaven’s armies will do this
because
of his strong love for his people.”
The lie thundered on. Tearing God’s
children apart. Making their lives harder and harder until it seemed that the
lie really was the truth. All the hurting and suffering outside of the garden
meant that God’s children only became more deafened to his shouts of rescue.
Wars and hatred and bitterness started
to tear apart God’s children. Forgetting him had meant they had forgotten who
they were and that meant they had forgotten to watch and wait for The King.
So God sent them another message.
Another
reminder that he was still there.
After
all this time.
After
all their battling against him . And turning away. And saying HE was the liar
He was
still coming for them.
And he was coming for them with The
Prince of Peace.
One who would quell all the anger and
fear and hating.
One who would be stronger than the lies
and the accusations and the deceit.
One who would wipe away all their tears
so they could see for real, the truth that had always been there from the very
beginning.
Once again Isaiah told God’s children
God’s message. To watch and wait for
A Prince
A Prince who’s rule would be with peace.
A peace that wasn’t like any peace the
world now knew.
A peace that was from the very
beginning, right back in the garden.
A peace that was stronger and more powerful
and forever.
God’s children had now forgotten what
peace was really like. The wonderful sound of peace that had been in the
garden, in all that God had first made, had been drowned out by the lie that
God didn’t care. And now the lie was so loud that God’s children couldn’t even
remember what the peace sounded like at all.
Which is why the Rescuer would not just
bring peace back but would rule with peace so that God’s children could never
forget it again.
God’s
children tried their very best to make life work without him. But somehow it
was never quite right.
However
hard they tried they still got sick
and hurt
and they still died.
Life out
of Eden was definitely hard, but it was also short. By now God’s children had
all but forgotten him and the wonderful place he had first given them. They had
forgotten the beauty of those first few days on earth. The peace of perfection
that they had lived in.
But
despite this there was something deep within them that meant they knew that sickness
and hurt and death were not how they were supposed to live. But instead of
making them run back to God it only made them keep running further and further
away.
God’s
children knew that life wasn’t supposed to be this way but everywhere they
looked it still seem so final
So God
gave Isaiah another message – truth be known, Isaiah did a lot of message
carrying between God and his lost children, which is quite a hard job when your
trying to deliver post to someone who doesn’t know where they are.
So Isaiah
faithfully passed on God next message
“His ever-expanding, peaceful government will
never end”
God was
telling his children that they were right. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
That was why he was moving heaven and earth to set things straight. Life with
God was supposed to last forever. Death and sickness and sadness were never
supposed to be.
God’s
Rescuer was going to rule forever. They would never have to worry about being
lost again.
Not once
The King had found them.
No comments:
Post a Comment