This year, I decided to engage the Advent season more than I have in the past. My organization (Multiply) is guiding us through this season with selected verses for the themes of hope, peace, joy, and love. The passage below really stuck with me from the first week.
Isaiah 2:1-5 NTL “This is the vision that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
In the last days, the mountain of the Lord’s house will be the highest of all – the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills,
and people from all over the world will stream there to worship. People from many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of Jacob’s God.
There he will teach us his ways, and we will walk in his paths.”
For the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion; his word will go out from Jerusalem. The Lord will mediate between nations and will settle international disputes.
They will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer fight against nation, nor train for war anymore.
“Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord!”
Be filled, friends. I pray all that He has done, all that He is, and all He has yet to reveal will confidently give you life.