a child of god
this is the way, run in it
When God's word says something is going to happen, you can bet your bottom dollar it will happen.
Micah, Chapter 4, says this, "And it will come about ..." that means it will happen. What comes next, God will see to pass. And it goes on to describe it, "in the last days" so this has to do with the Millennial Kingdom, "that the mountain of the house of the Lord" that's Mt Zion in Israel, "will be established as the chief of the mountains. It will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to it." And I love what comes next. I can see my friend, Rosemary, bouncing up and down on her feet in joy over this, "And many nations will come and say, "Come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob..." Many nations! Check that out! This is God's purpose and intention. That many nations will come to Him, will come to Mt Zion. And there is a reason. They are going to come because they want this - "...that He may teach us about His ways and that we may walk in His paths." People from many nations will come (this will happen, God says so) will come to Mt Zion, to Jerusalem and the temple of the Lord because they want God to teach them! They want to get to know the LORD God, to know what He is like, and then to live it out - to walk in His ways. They want God to teach them. In this day and age, when people don't like the idea of being taught truths, when it is more popular to go with what the majority think and feel and where truth is relative - "well, if that is what you think is true, that's truth for you" - that kind of mindset is totally against what God thinks and what God foretells will happen in the last days. Jesus said He was the truth. Jesus the Word of God made flesh, walking the earth fully human and fully God. And before He went to the cross to die and pay for the sins of all of us, because we couldn't do it ourselves stuck and covered in sin - He prayed to God the Father and asked Him to "sanctify them in the truth; Your word is the truth" (John 17:17). We can be taught by God today, even before this day that He foretells will come to pass. We can read His word, listen to His Spirit, and then walk out the truths He teaches us. God's ways are perfect. They are full of love, justice, peace, holiness, mercy, righteousness, and the person who walks humbly in them before God, caring more about what God thinks than what people think, yet loving people and showing them Jesus - that person will want to be taught by God. God's thoughts and ideas will be precious to him and her. And they will declare, like Micah did, like the people of the nations will, in verse 5 of Chapter 3, "though all the peoples walk each in the name of his god, as for us, we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever."
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