This Sunday's Gospel reading is from Luke 3:1-6,
Handel's "Messiah" is drawn from scripture, and this reading made me think of Handel's setting of "Every valley shall be exalted..."
Nowadays, the environmentalists would probably try to keep even the Lord from filling the valleys and leveling the hills.
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high-priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah,‘The voice of one crying out in the wilderness:“Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low,and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”
Handel's "Messiah" is drawn from scripture, and this reading made me think of Handel's setting of "Every valley shall be exalted..."
Nowadays, the environmentalists would probably try to keep even the Lord from filling the valleys and leveling the hills.
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Environmentalists and leftists object to the way the Lord designed the world.
ReplyDeleteAround here, every valley is covered with 8" of snow, soon to become ice because of the cold rain which followed.