The sign of good times are older people walking and talking in the streets and boys and girls playing. It is a universal symbol that people are safe and properous enough to enjoy life and its simple pleasures. That lifestyle is elusive to most in the world and many even in our country. Many of us at Faith know this free spirit intimately.
God brings us this image of Zion in stark contrast to the previous chapter where a group of people refused to listen to his simple rules:
1) Render true judgements
2) Show kindness and mercy to one another
3) Do not oppress those less fortunate
4) Do not devise evil plots againt one another
God shook those people up and scattered them "and a pleasant land was made desolate." Noone was laughing in the streets anymore.
When I apply this to my life, I don't know which side of the picture I am on. Am I living the life where I am just not listening to God? Destined to be shaken up at some point? I don't think people are grasping at me to find God, so I can't be at the other end of the spectrum. Where am I?
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