Joy to the World~

I read this in The Jesse Tree Devotional today and LOVED it:

Can't you feel it in the air this time of year? Can't you hear it in the wind, the whispering rumors of a new kingdom coming?

A world of Peace, where a leopard lies quiet with a goat, and the ravenous hunger of the lion is completely satisfied by a handful of straw-a lion just like a harmless cow!

Do you believe the good news of a new paradise coming, where a toddler plays happy at the hold of the cobra and a child will dangle his hand in the nest of the asp, and the enemy snake that once bit us with the poison of sin in the Garden of Eden will be nothing more than a playmate to the laughing?  This time of year sings with hope!

But how do we go up this holy mountain where no one hurts another and perfect peace reigns?

He who is the Christ Child will lead us.  The little Christ Child coming to Bethlehem will lead us in the way of Peace and into the new Kingdom coming and Christ Who is our peace, Who wears goodness and fairness like a belt, He will be the King that looks not on the outside but upon our hearts and He will free all the poor and never again will man be wolf to man.

Because Christ became our lamb.
Can't you hear it everywhere? JOY TO THE WORLD!