DAILY READINGS: 2 Chronicles 18-19; Ezekiel 38; John 15:17 to 16:15
And the government shall be upon His shoulder…And of the
increase of His government and peace there shall be no end. Is. 9:6,7
Isaiah anticipates Christ’s kingdom and reveals two characteristics
of His millenial reign—its strength and its duration. We live in days
of weak and changing governments, but all this will change when the
Lord establishes his Kingdom. It will be characterized by strength,
“And he shall rule them with a rod of iron” (Rev. 2:27). Not only so,
but, “His government and peace shall endure forever”. We, as the
Lord’s people, enjoy the beneficence of his reign in our hearts in the
present, and we look forward to that day when the entire cosmos will
bow the knee to Him. —W. H. Burnett
Grant us Thy peace, bid dangers cease, and Thou, Thy mercy sending,
Christ, give us rest, where, with the blest, Thy reign is never ending.—Anon.