Oh, if it were so, that the wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard with the kid, calf and lion, cow and bear, lion and child! What hope! I find that when our current story, or current life is filled with overwhelming challenges, what gets us through are hopeful visions of what the future might hold. A future different from the present. So after the doom and gloom of being conquered, a future vision of wolf living with lamb would have been a vision the people could cling to, to get them through a difficult time.
I cling to this sense of hope for the future. Especially as I listen to the news, think about the many people dying from disease and poverty, the talks about Iran and anything nuclear. It can be overwhelming. So my hope comes from the new heaven and new earth that will come about in the kingdom of heaven. Sometimes our hope has to lie outside of our current life and reality, and in a reality beyond this life.
-Melanie
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