Friday 24 September 2010

Prepare the Way

John the Baptist calls out and quotes Isaiah 40, 'prepare the way!'. I've always assumed that this is something we must do - clean up our act, get ready for God to come and so forth.

Certainly the beginning of the passage looks that way, but the more I think about it I wonder. You see it goes on to talk of valleys being raised and mountains made low and so on. Now I know with modern day engineering its kind of possible. Our roads & railways cut a relatively straight and level path through undulating terrain, but I don't think that is what Isaiah or John had in mind!

Perhaps we should realise that God is going to do this earth moving, major-change, levelling kind of stuff. Perhaps our role therefore is to get on board with it. The change doesn't depend on us, He has it in mind to do it anyway, but we have the responsibility to align ourselves with His purposes.

So 'prepare the way' becomes 'wise up and join in' ... for the glory of the Lord will be revealed, at some point one way or another everyone is going to see it.

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