Narrative Lectionary Key Verse for Today
“They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”
NL Daily Devotion for Monday, June 12, 2023
by R. M. Fergus, Clergy Stuff
Do you ever just get tired of all the violence? I was just thinking about World War II and how the further we move away from that era, the more abstract the magnitude of that violence becomes. And at the same time, we have become so desensitized to violence in our modern culture—we have all lost count of the mass shootings, the BIPOC men and women killed by police—it sometimes doesn’t even register. I wonder sometimes whether these words of hope from Isaiah wouldn’t fall on deaf ears today simply because so many of us have compartmentalized the daily atrocities of our society that we don’t even recognize violence anymore.
These words break my heart, honestly. I ache for the promise they convey and sometimes it is hard to believe it will ever come to pass. But God is faithful, and I have to trust that though I will likely never see it while I am on this earth, it will be fulfilled in God’s time.
Do I sometimes find God’s promises hard to believe?
