Micah's words

We read this last night in Bible Study. I love it.

“Many nations will come and say,

‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,

to the house of the God of Jacob.

He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths.’

The law will go out from Zion,

the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes

for strong nations far and wide.

They will beat their swords into plowshares and

their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation will not take up sword against nation,

nor will they train for war anymore.

Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree,

and no one will make them afraid, for the LORD Almighty has spoken.

All the nations may walk in the name of their gods;

we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever.”

-Micah 4:2-5 (NIV)

I love this passage for its vision of peace, but I am drawn more to the line, ‘no one will make them afraid’. We live in a world that wants us to be afraid. We are constantly being told who or what we should fear. Whether it’s a poor economy, soaring gas prices, a terrible housing market, infectious diseases, war across the world, violence here at home, terrorism threat levels, natural disasters or terrible weather, we are always being put on the defensive, being told, that we should fear this or that. It is so good to know that a day will come when we don’t have to fear a thing, a day in which God will set things right.

Brad