Nothing More Than A Living Slinky

  

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word:

 

Isa 11:7 The cow and the bear shall graze; Their young ones shall lie down together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD As the waters cover the sea.

I love how Isaiah keeps painting the picture of perfect peace in the new heaven and the new earth when Jesus comes again. God really wants us to get this. He wants us to crave it, and if we crave it, we will turn to the only one who can grant it. The Messiah, Jesus Christ.

 

Imagine a cow and a bear grazing side by side in a pasture. Their calves and cubs romping together and neither cow nor bear charging after anything drawing near to their calf or cub. No need to, there is no danger!

 

And is that a lion over there eating hay out of a manger instead of ripping apart the flesh of another animal?

 

And, “look out child!” “Don’t stick your hand into that snake’s nest!” But wait, it’s okay, it’s nothing more now than a living slinky. Let the two play together!

 

Please get this picture of perfect peace and harmony and shoot for the day, you will witness it into eternity.

 

There will be absolutely no more destruction or hurt in God’s holy mountain! His knowledge will fill the earth as water fills the sea. TOTAL!

 

Let’s talk briefly about this knowledge. Remember the tree of knowledge of good and evil? It is gone! Out of the way forever. All that will be known by the inhabitants of the new earth will be good. Evil forever banished, never to tempt or bother man or beast again! The intimacy of God permeating everything!

 

This is what 1Co 13:12 is talking about: “For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

 

Perfect intimacy (knowledge) with God and all of creation. Beautiful! Can’t say it enough! Be there!

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word.