I Read Something Beautiful Today.

I love reading through the Old Testament of the bible. Some of the most beautiful imagery comes out of there. Today I was beginning to read through Isaiah and found this passage:

“He will settle disputes among great nations. They will hammer thier swords into plows and their spears into pruning knives. Nations will never again go to war, never prepare for battle again.” (Isaiah 2:4 GNB)

This imagery of weapons being used to retill the earth and help restore it back to something beautiful. My friends Matt Martinson and Shauna Mann – links to their blogs are on the side - used (what I think was) this verse for a compassion project or advent at their church and showed people plowing fields with AK-47’s. That image has never left my head.

When I read this verse I see this: this is what God does in our lives as we use our bodies for what we think is good, but when we truly trust in God he reshapes us and turns us into something better and far more useful than we ever intended.

just a thought.