Today is Thursday, February 2nd, 2012; Karen's Korner #2249
Here is a chapter from Isaiah; chapter 35 titled "Streams in the Desert". It is a 'beautiful picture of the final Kingdom in which God will establish his justice and destroy evil. This is the world the faithful can anticipate after the judgment when creation itself will rejoice in God......when life will be peaceful at last.":
Get ready; God's good news is coming!
Even the wilderness and desert will rejoice in those days;
the desert will blossom with flowers.
Yes, there will be an abundance of flowers
and singing and joy!
The deserts will become as green
as the Lebanon mountains,
as lovely as Mount Carmel's pastures
and Sharon's meadows;
for the Lord will display his glory there,
the excellence of our God.
With this news bring cheer to all discouraged ones.
Encourage those who are afraid.
Tell them,
"Be strong,
fear not,
for your God is coming to destroy your enemies.
He is coming to save you."
And when he comes,
he will open the eyes of the blind,
and unstop the ears of the deaf.
The lame man will leap up like a deer,
and those who could not speak
will shout and sing!
Springs will burst forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert.
The parched ground will become a pool,
with springs of water in the thirsty land.
Where desert jackals lived,
there will be reeds and rushes!
And a main road will go through that once-deserted land;
it will be named, "The Holy Highway".
No evil-hearted men may walk upon it.
God will walk there with you;
even the most stupid cannot miss the way.
No lion will lurk along its course,
nor will there be any other dangers;
only the redeemed will travel there.
These,the ransomed of the Lord,
will go home along the road to Zion,
singing the songs of everlasting joy.
For them all sorrow
and all sighing will be gone forever;
only joy and gladness will be there.
~ Isaiah 35 (LB)
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