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| Who is your herald? Who in your life can climb up high enough to see the long view and see God coming? How can you be a herald of good news for others? Day 6: Read Isaiah 40:10-11. What are the two images of God in these verses? So … which is God? Warrior or shepherd? How is God both? Does the shepherd image reshape the warrior image? What is it that God truly fights? Jesus always fights evil with good (Romans 12:20-21) and he is the only one who can defeat evil. What does this say about how we should live our lives? Day 7: Read Isaiah 40:12-15 several times. See, in your mind’s eye, God holding the oceans in his hands, God weighing the mountains on a scale. Draw a picture or write a poem, using new images, finding new ways of expressing God’s infinite power and wisdom. Day 8: Read Isaiah 40:16-17. Are the US or Canada, great superpowers, less than nothingness to God? That’s hard to imagine. If that is true, what does that say about all the trust we put into our governments? Does this truth—that God sees governments as less than nothing—fill you with hope or fear? Why? Day 9: Read Isaiah 40:18-20. Try to picture this scene in your mind. A young boy sits in front of a big, plastic box, where fast moving images flash before his eyes. He sits mesmerized, oblivious to the world around him. What he sees in the box he understands as absolute truth. He takes his cues about how the world works and what he should value from the stories that box tells him. He buys what the images and words tell him to buy. He sits there, for hours on end. Continued... |
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