Friday, June 29, 2012


For as the earth bursts with spring wildflowers, and as a garden cascades with blossoms, So the Master, God, brings righteousness into full bloom and puts praise on display before the nations.” (Isaiah 61:11, The Message) 

There is nothing quite like seeing a profusion of wildflowers in bloom, or a garden cascading with new blossoms.  We were hiking once in the Grand Tetons and came upon a huge clearing right about the tree line.  It covered acres and acres and was literally bursting with wildflowers of every color, red, blue, purple, yellow, orange, and white.  It was stunningly beautiful and a sight that I remember clearly after all these (15) years.

Isaiah chooses an apt metaphor here for in the same way that wildflowers bloom, God brings righteousness into full bloom and puts praise on display before the nations. I imagine that this means that when God brings righteousness to bloom he does it spectacularly and obviously.  You can't miss it and it's stunningly beautiful and obvious for all to see.  Not all will want to see it, but all will see it.  Such is the nature of God's righteousness and praise.

Our job?  To be one of those wildflowers and exhibit God's righteousness and declare his praise.

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