Isaiah 60
Dear RTB’ers,
New Year’s Eve. The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory. Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light… (vv. 19-20a) All this morning I’ve had a song in my head, “I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light”. Our son had sent us a beautiful rendition of that song that his church had sung at their Christmas concert. The chorus in that song stands out, agreeing with the verses quoted above: “In Him there is no darkness at all, the night and the day are both alike. The Lamb is the Light of the City of God. Shine in my heart, Lord Jesus.” It is so wonderful when my “head thoughts” and our RTB reading are the same (or similar). What do we call that? God’s holy echo…!!
Seven or eight times in today’s reading we see the words “shall come”. Nations shall come, sons and daughters shall come, wealth shall come, tormentors and oppressors shall come…, all shall come to God, to the glory of the Lord at the new Jerusalem: The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the LORD, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (v. 14) This is the future to which we hold. When? We don’t know. Maybe 2026? Happy New Year, everyone!!
Blessings!
See also: October 4 (2023) / Isaiah 60-64.