Isaiah 49:14-25
It is hard to read this from the perspective of the Jewish nation and imagine it fulfilled. The Jewish people are certainly not honoured as this passage suggests, rather they are still struggling to be recognised as a nation by many Arab states.
But one can see that when this is interpreted as the remnant of the remnant - that Jesus the true Israel - distilled down to one Son - when this reading is applied to him, we can see fulfillment. Jesus has seen his children, his brothers and sisters, those he called his family, those who try to follow God and bring the Kingdom in - they are flourishing. Nations are today bowing down.
Yet there is also the amazing truth of the experience that God has bought good things out of barrenness. This is my experience. It is hard to imagine and believe that He does this, but He does. And I need to rest easy in the confidence that You will provide for me.
Mark 10:13-18
There is an arrogsance that I sometimes share that we can stand in judgment of the Kingdom and of the Scripture and even of Jesus. I can remember my arrogance when I first started to go to church - actually thinking that the church were 'lucky to have me'!! There is a huge misperception that we do God a big a favour when we pray or when we decide to believe! O the arrogance! It is of course always us who are receiving and have so little to offer back. Maybe this is part of what it means to be like little children - to understand our dependency; to understand just how much we have to learn and are inexperienced; to recognise the authority we need over us to teach us and guide us.
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