When the mountains sing, are you listening?

Isaiah Chapter 55 is subtitled The Compassion of the Lord. In it there is representation of the call to follow the Lord (verse 12), as an extension of God’s speaking creation for His purpose and success (verse 11), and the confirmation that even the natural world we dwell within will palpably respond in acclamation (verse 13).

This wonderful call is built upon an invitation (verse 1), correction (verse 2), instruction (verse 3), and evidence (verse 4).

As a new seminary student, I may certainly be going out on a loose limb here, but we as contemporary Christians have the benefit of seeing the Great Commission implied in verse 5, that from God’s chosen people the messiah would come as Jesus Christ to seek and save the lost… the nation “you did not know shall run to you.” Christ’s work on the cross as propitiation for our sins, in my cursory read, may be seen in verse 5 when he imparts his righteousness upon us in exchange for our sin, “because of the Lord your God, and of the Holy One of Israel, for he has glorified you.”

Don’t hold me to it, I’m only embarking now upon training to interpret accurately, but I know who really holds me to it, the Lord our God.

Our second episode of the Nailed It Theology Podcast became available today, so there is now proof it’s a series and not a one-off! In it we talk about how in our conversations of the podcast, “all ways are His ways.” That takes reference to Isaiah 55:8-9, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Our goal is to engage in the instruction to take every thought captive to Christ (2 Corinthians 10:5). Make His thoughts your thoughts, make His ways your ways. Do that through repentance, returning to His grace upon grace through faith in Christ Jesus. If a little audio recording from a pair of believers disseminated through modern technology ends up in the same stream of glory & praise that elicits mountains to sing, trees to clap, thorns to outrun by cypress, and myrtle to outdo brier, that’s the way I want to go.