Susan Lafferty“I promise.”
Absolute guarantee.
Lifetime warranty.
Permanent agreement.
These vows we hear at every turn and transaction.
And, after a while, find ourselves taking them with a grain of salt. As they say.
Satan lurks. Like a lion in the thicket.
Waiting to seize a victim.
Cursing, deceit, and violence fill his mouth. From generation to generation. Oppression and terror? His language and modus operandi.
But into that thicket of devouring and death comes the Good Shepherd.
Seeking the lost.
Never fails to catch my heart. Luminous words about the Savior. Back in the major and minor prophets.
Mystery to the listeners.
But revealed to us in the New Testament and the coming of Christ.
Today, consider Isaiah 64 and Israel’s prayer.
