A future full of hope

A future full of hope: The Sunday Scripture readings were quite awesome for me. In Isaiah, the prophet speaks about the mountain of the Lord, to which I am invited to celebrate my redemption, as is every human being on the face of the earth.  I am told that this is the Lord’s mountain, where at His second coming all my tears and the tears of all humankind,  will be wiped  away. The veil that blocks my vision as well as the vision of every man and  woman, every child and adolescent,  will be stripped away—blindness removed.  The web enslaving me and every nation and all peoples will be shattered.  The reproach leveled at me  and at any person on the face of this earth will be removed.  The Lord comes with power, I am  told in another part of Isaiah.  God comes to save me and all of humanity from all that binds us, destroys us, deprives us of the peace, the joy, the love, the forgiveness, the fullness of life Jesus promises in the Gospels: “I have come that you may have life and have it to the full.”  God wants nothing less for us and Christ will not rest until He knows He’s accomplished the Father’s will, our salvation and freedom from Satan’s snares.  The robe of salvation, the wedding garment, purchased by the blood of Christ, is offered to each of us every day, every moment, in all of the circumstances of our lives. Will we accept this garment of grace? Will we wear it? Will this wedding garment become brighter and brighter, more beautiful and beautifying as each of us lives the Gospel of Christ? Or will we kill the messenger, reject the Message, and walk  back into the darkness, back into the web woven by pride and jealousy, by lust and covetousness, by hatred and fear, by deceit and envy? Will we allow ourselves to remain caught in Satan’s snares or accept the freedom Christ offers? peoples and nations