Susan Lafferty“Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go” (Joshua 1:16).
No half-hearted maybes. Balking at the unknowns. Questions about personal safety.
No calculating anticipated losses.
Everything and everywhere.
No turning back.
Isaiah. Prophet and poet. Master of prose. Skillfully taking us to ruin and glory.
“The city of chaos is shattered;
Every house is closed to entry.
In the streets they cry for wine.
All joy grows dark;
Earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
Only desolation remains in the city;
its gate has collapsed in ruins.”
Isaiah 24:10-12
Well-placed words. And we see the broken place. Grieve the curse that consumes the earth and its inhabitants. “…for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant” (24:5).
