Micah 4:1-7
Advent is the season of hope! And few verses so stir up the feeling of hope as these. Micah warns of impending judgement. The Assyrians are at the gates. But beyond judgement is the hope of a Messiah who will peace and security. “Each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree”.
Our family’s favourite musical is Les Misérables. It portrays vividly the misery suffered by ordinary Parisians in revolutionary France. But the musical ends with a stirring finale that suggests an alternative to the violence of the barricades:
“Do you hear the people sing? Do you hear the distant drums? It is the future that they bring when tomorrow comes! They will live again in freedom, in the garden of the Lord. They will walk behind the ploughshare; They will put away the sword.”
Even so Lord, come quickly!
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