Baruch 5:1-9
Today's passage comes from the Apocryphal Deuterocanonical books of the bible (ho, I sound smart yeah...lol) and I'm not sure if you all have it, so I made a link you can follow in order to be able to read the passage.
http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=221552729 (you may have to cut and paste this into your address bar)
I have to say that on my first reading of these verses I found myself feeling proud to be one of God's people. Not proud as in, "hey, look at me", but proud as in a child who's parent just won the Parent of The Year Award. I saw myself standing tall, my shoulders back and chin up, wearing my best clothes, holding the hand of my parent and saying, "yup I belong to this family".
I then went back in time to a place where our family used to always be together; Christmas. No matter how busy my father was, or how many jobs my mom had we somehow always found a way to be together on Christmas day. I'm not naive enough to believe this is the way it is for all people, but as for me this is a memory I can carry as long as I have a memory.
I reread the passage and on taking a closer look at it I noticed there was not a mention of war, battle, or conflict of any kind. The reading simply says that one day we will all be able to stand together as one people, as one family, in the beauty of the world which God has given us. According to our reading that day will be called the day of Righteous Peace, Godly Glory.
Oh for that day to come.
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