Luther Seminary “Moved by the Promise
‘God Pause’” - Tuesday, 3 December 2013 – Isaiah 64:1 O that you would tear open
the heavens and come down,
so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
2 [a] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your
adversaries,
so that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 When you did awesome deeds that we did
not expect,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 From ages past no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who works for those who wait for him.
Footnotes:
Isaiah 64:2 Ch 64.1 in Heb(NRSV)
There is urgency in the prophet's cry for
God's advent. Cosmic powers and principalities along with the warring nations
of this world fight against God's ways. A divine reckoning is called for. The
prophet wants deliverance—and deliverance now—from these enemies of God! And
yet the ways of God in bringing about redemption are unexpected. God certainly
does awesome deeds that we could not expect. God comes to us as a child, a baby
born in obscurity. God comes to us in the crucified body of the Messiah.
Indeed, there is no God besides this God whose power is made perfect in
weakness and who overcomes the forces of evil in this world with the soulforce
of love.
Laura Thelander
Seminary Pastor, Luther Seminary
Master of Divinity , 1997
Isaiah 64:1 O that you would tear open
the heavens and come down, so that the mountains would quake at your presence—
2 as when fire kindles brushwood and the
fire causes water to boil—to make your name known to your adversaries, so that
the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 When you did awesome deeds that we did
not expect, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 From ages past no one has heard, no ear
has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who
wait for him.(NRSV)
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