One of those days

It was one of  those  days yesterday.

Nah. Not, as most daily readers will think, one of those days, but one of those days, a good day. The kind of day you want to wrap up and keep for quite a while, or figure out how to clone, or simply to remember.

Nothing fancy. Nothing perfect. Just good.

Weather? Check. Sunny to partly cloudy. Warm, like a breath of spring, but without any accompanying humidity I could feel.

Happenings? Check. Car wasn't seriously kaput, just sorta kaput. Battery dead. Not out of reach financially. Book proofs finished. Ready to send back today. No one injured. No one hurt. Nothing bad happened.

I sat outside, reading those proofs and admiring what God had given, and I thought, "man, this is one of those days."

God did some describing of a day that still is to come. A day unlike any other. A day when Jesus will change everything, make everything new, make the most of what we've done.

Hear him now from Isiah 11: "In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all. 7 The cow will graze near the bear. The cub and the calf will lie down together. The lion will eat hay like a cow. 8 The baby will play safely near the hole of a cobra. Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm. 9 Nothing will hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for as the waters fill the sea, so the earth will be filled with people who know the Lord."

Apart from that cobra thing, what a magnificent thought. Peace will flow. Peace will surround us like sound from a new system. And a little child will lead us.

Now, these words were formed for the two kingdoms of Israel, but they are no less important to us. Again, we live in a world when two political parties can't get together to run a country any longer, much less two countries getting together to provide peace and welfare to all persons of the world. But that day is coming when "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord." When that day comes, what brings us together will be far more powerful than the things that separate us.

Come Lord Jesus. Come.