– Scripture:

                A Living Knowledge of God

The wolf will romp with the lamb, and the leopard sleep with the kid. Calf and lion will eat from the same trough, and a little child will tend them. Cow and bear will graze the same pasture, their calves and cubs grow up together, and the lion eat straw like the ox. The nursing child will crawl over rattlesnake dens, the toddler stick his hand down the hole of a serpent. Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill on my holy mountain. The whole earth will be brimming with knowing God-Alive, a living knowledge of God ocean-deep, ocean-wide.

                            Isaiah 11:6–9 MSG

– Reflection:

I think this passage will be for everyone, there should be something in here for everyone. Getting older and growing in wisdom and thought I now know a lot more about how the animal kingdom functions. A wolf would absolutely munch on the lamb, the leopard would inevitably snack on the goat, and the lion would surely make a meal of the calf. No parent would place their little child in the middle of all of these animals. As you get older you start to lose the hope and faith that all of these diverse creatures could live together in harmony. This passage is not about what would happen if all these animals and us were placed together in actual life. We all know that the predators of the group would kill everything that the ones bigger than them didn’t get.

Where do we go from here?

There are people in our lives who are wolves, who are goats, and who are lions. I think this passage is like a dream. A dream that all people, from all backgrounds and walks of life can truly live together in harmony have had. That is if they are of the Kingdom of GOD, that they can all exist in a state of content(togetherness). May we all work together to make this dream a reality. That every person has enough to live in love and acceptance of one another. Instead of choosing anger, choose love. Instead of choosing conflict, choose peace. May we all work to make this dream a reality.

Our Prayer for Today

Father thank you for allowing us to live in peace with one another with our differences. May we continue to look past conflict and look to peace in our communities, and the world. Amen.