Meditation 5: Isaiah 66
8/25/2009 8:00:21 PM
Isaiah 66:7-13
...I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in
The verses of this passage are full of hope and promise. Jerusalem is a city belonging to God, but not always living up to its birthright. It represents the human journey in all of its frailty and fullness. God’s people are at a time when they need to hear there is a future for them, and that it will come from God.
This last chapter promises that God brings forth life with hope and good intention, and God will not let that life fall into nothingness. There will be hardship because that’s part of life on earth; it’s one of the ways we humans learn. It’s part of the cycle of life that teaches us to look deeper: times of plenty and times of deep, deep need.
But through it all, God will continue to work with purpose, leading creation always to that time when hope turns to fulfillment and promise becomes reality. How that takes place is not ours to control. Our part is to live tuned into our souls, trusting the Journey-Giver.
All of those things we find puzzling about this life and those things that threaten to overwhelm us: even these contain the seeds of God’s promise. God’s creative love has the power to bring forth something of lasting value, no matter what.
God of unconditional love, give me clarity of faith and thinking, and the capacity to see your creative presence in the midst of life as it is.
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