Tuesday, 3/7/17
The first reading tells us
that God sends us helpful ideas, and he sends us the strength to accomplish
what we must. The reading compares those graces from God to the rain God sends
down making the earth fruitful.
Our passage today is verses 10
and 11 from Isaiah Fifty-Five. They constitute the second half of four verses
that make up a beautiful Bible poem. If we begin with verses 8 and 9, the
complete poem reads:
8. My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says
the Lord. 9 As high as the heavens are
above the earth, so high are my ways above your ways, and my thoughts above
yo9ur thoughts.
10 For just as from the heavens, the rain and snow
come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it
fertile and fruitful; giving seed to him who sows, and bread to him who
eats, 11
so shall my word be that goes
forth from my mouth; It shall not return to me void, but shall do my will,
achieving the end for which I sent it.
In teaching grade school
classes, I would hold up a five dollar bill that would be the reward for the first person to flawlessly recite the whole passage from memory. It was fun watching them throw their heads back trying to chug-along the whole passage.
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