Isaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19; Ps 102 from heaven the Lord oops down on the earth; Mt 11:28-30
"When your judgment dawns upon the earth, the world's inhabitants learn justice..."
Isaiah in today's first reading above everything else is predicting the restoration of the nation of Israel. He points out that God is the one that gives rebirth to a nation, "for it is you who have accomplished all we have done."
A nation does not make people good, only God can make people good.
It is God that ultimate ensures the rebirth of a people, not laws passed, not law suits made, not supreme courts, or legislative branches, or executive orders.
God makes a nation good. His direction alone ensures goodness.
What would happen if we as citizens carried out the words of Isaiah, "YOur name and title are the desire of our souls."
There in lies the beginning of goodness.
JEsus tells us in the gospel, "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest."
What keeps us from the rest Jesus offers?
What are we pursuing that hinders us form receiving fully the gift Christ comes to give?
Often times we seek many things and these are counterfeits to the one thing we are lacking: Christ himself.
"take my yoke upon you and you will find rest for yourselves."
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