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If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. “The Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come.’
“Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
- Richard Baxter
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IS 11:1-10; PS 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; LK 10:21-24
R. Justice shall
flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever.
O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the king’s son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with
judgment.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
He shall rescue the poor when he cries out,
and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the poor he shall save.
May his name be blessed forever;
as long as the sun his name shall remain.
In him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed;
all the nations shall proclaim his happiness.
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Even as a small child, I marveled at the idea of the wolf and the lamb being together, to
think of a child being safe as he or she played with snakes. What a fantasy world awaits us – where pain and suffering is no more. How do we hold our faith and continue to believe in such a world? Perhaps that is the main reason (truly the only reason) that we celebrate Christmas every year. It is not to exchange the newest technology or to bestow on our children every new toy being marketed. It is to remind us that the root of Jesse has come and is a signal for
the nations. The promises of Isaiah are not for us now but rather what will be in the second coming – we have our first gift in the birth of Christ and now have an obligation of how we live with that gift in anticipation of the next time He comes
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Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of
Norwich Second Revelation, Chapter
10
“God willeth to be seen and to be sought: to be abided and to be trusted”
AND after this
I saw with bodily sight in the face of the crucifix that hung before me, on the which I gazed continually, a part of His Passion: despite, spitting and sullying, and buffetting, and many languoring pains, more than I can tell, and often changing of colour. And one time I saw half the face, beginning at the ear, over-gone with dry blood till it covered to the mid-face. And after that the other half [was] covered on the same wise, the whiles in this [first] part [it vanished] even as it
came.
This saw I bodily, troublously and darkly; and I desired more bodily sight, to have seen more clearly. And I was answered in my reason: If God will shew thee more, He shall be thy light: thee needeth none but Him. For I saw Him sought.
For we are now so blind and unwise that we never seek God till He of His goodness shew Himself to us. And when we aught see of Him graciously, then are we stirred by the same grace to seek with great desire to see Him more blissfully.
And thus I saw Him, and sought Him; and I had Him, I wanted Him. And this is, and should be, our common working in this [life], as to my sight.
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