Changed By God To Make A Difference For God

In our lessons today, we read some of the wonderful promises of God to heal and restore his broken and disordered world through Jesus, his promised Messiah. But as we look around, we have a hard time seeing any of these promises coming to fruition. Wolves still eat lambs, poisonous snakes still bite, and evil and injustice still seem to run rampant. What are we to make of these wonderful but as yet unfulfilled promises? Check out what Fr. Kevin Maney has to say about these vexing questions and see what you think. Lectionary texts for today are Isaiah 11.1-10; Psalm 72.1-7, 17-18; Romans 15.4-13; Matthew 3.1-12.