Moving In The Vision

"Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever." - Isaiah 32:16-17 ESV

Sounds nice doesn't it? A place of rest. Let's look at the context of the passage.

"Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech. In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the grape harvest fails, the fruit harvest will not come. Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist. Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine, for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city. For the palace is forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens forever, a joy of wild donkeys, a pasture of flocks; until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest. Then justice will dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness abide in the fruitful field. And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever. My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. And it will hail when the forest falls down, and the city will be utterly laid low. Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free." - Isaiah 32:9-20 ESV

A complacent mindset is our enemy. We are strangers and pilgrims on the Earth (see Heb 11:1f).

Sow beside all waters, not some of them, all of them. Go into all the world.

Mourn a little. Leave what you like to go in the vision. It is good for you.

We all crave security sometimes. We plant and things grow. But, The time comes to move forward not grasping too tightly to what we have but moving forward into the next thing.

"Happy are you who sow beside all waters, who let the feet of the ox and the donkey range free." - Isaiah 32:20 ESV

The peace we found in the fruitful season will stay with us. It is the effect of righteousness. It is better to go and return than to over stay my welcome.

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