Our Paths

Isaiah 2:2-4 English Standard Version

2 It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
3 and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

These are not the latter days, as much as I would like them to be, they are not. How do I know that? The King of kings has not come and made His place on earth to settle all our disputes.

Verse 3 says many will come to receive instruction. That hasn’t happened even if we who walk with the Lord count our numbers as many. We need not now ask of His ways because He is our Lord seated on the throne of heaven, not on Zion.

Our paths do not lead us to the King of kings, we walk the earth according to His will and His way.

Proverbs 8:20

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,

Micah 4:2 repeats the message of Isaiah but adds in verse 5 “For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.”

Our  path is in the here and now, not our forever future.

Is the path we walk just?

It will be if we walk in the way of righteousness.

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