Imagine: it’s a time of great national upheaval. The future of your nation has been cast into uncertainty. In the midst of all of that, God appears to you. How would you react? That’s what the prophet Isaiah experienced: In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord…
Have you ever seen someone do something that was completely incomprehensible to you? They took some action or said something that didn’t make a single lick of sense, and the experience left you scratching your head and wondering what that was about.
This was the Old Testament reading in our congregation this past weekend: Thus says the Lord: Maintain justice, and do what is right, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed… And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the…