Kinda Makes You Wanna Hug A Tree

 

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

 

Isa 14:7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing.

 8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'

 

Isaiah paints a beautiful picture for us as to what the new heavens and earth will look like. The devil, his evil demons, and all unbelievers assigned permanently to hell , where they can never disturb the earth again. “The whole earth will be at rest and quiet!”

 

Set free, all of creation including you and I, who have been groaning and longing for this day ever since Eve took of the fruit) breaks out in singing! Oh the joy! This yearning is what we read of in Ro 8:19-23! “For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God.  20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope; 21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.

 

 And when that day arrives, the Psalmist tells us: Ps 98:8 Let the rivers clap their hands; Let the hills be joyful together  9 before the LORD,  For He is coming to judge the earth. With righteousness He shall judge the world, And the peoples with equity.

 

And later in Isaiah we read, “ Isa 55:12 "For you shall go out with joy, And be led out with peace; The mountains and the hills Shall break forth into singing before you, And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

 

As we look forward to that day, it kinda makes you wanna hug a tree doesn’t it? At least it ought to move us to pray with John….”Come Lord Jesus!” (Rev 22:20)

 

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