Tuesday, December 1: Micah 4:6-10
Things may look pretty bleak. We still haven’t beat our swords into ploughshares and nations still take up swords against other nations and train for war. We can’t even love our neighbor enough to wear a mask for her. We live in this messed-up world and wonder if we matter. The prophet Micah might describe us as the lame, the exiles, the grieving, and those who the bully throws aside. On our own we do not matter.
What can we cling to? What can we hang onto with confidence? We need to find something big, something audacious, something really humongous to hang onto. We do have something ginormous to hang onto and God gave it to us. He gave us his promise of a day, that day when he will make the lame his remnant. That day when God will assemble the exiles, the grieving, and the bullied and rule over them in Mount Zion forever.
But where does that leave us today? What do we do today? How do we face COVID-19, racial injustice and intolerance, and all the turmoil we see each day? We know that God is doing his work of restoration. He created us knowing we would fail him. He sent his son to save us but we are still in Babylon waiting to be rescued.
If God is working to restore his creation, then those whom God created in his image should also be doing God’s work. We can love our neighbor, we can speak out against intolerance and injustice, we can be the light of Christ in our world today. We must live in Babylon and do God’s work in Babylon with full confidence that on that day we will be rescued from Babylon.
One day He's coming
Oh glorious day, oh glorious day!
Craig Walker