Room for peace and transformation
Jock Stein
December 02, 2025
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Isaiah 2: 1-5 (NIVUK)
1 This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
2 In the last days
the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
and all nations will stream to it.3 Many peoples will come and say,
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
so that we may walk in his paths.’
The law will go out from Zion,
the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 He will judge between the nations
and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into ploughshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
nor will they train for war any more.5 Come, descendants of Jacob,
let us walk in the light of the Lord.
Jerusalem is indeed built on a hill, though it is a small one. But because the Lord’s house was there, and because that house is like the high heavens (Psalm 78: 69), it is claimed to be higher, more important than any other place of worship. This remains obscure until we see Jesus as ‘the Lord’s house’ (John 2:18-22), and see ‘importance’ the way Jesus saw it (Mark 10: 43-45).
And this passage tells us that God’s word goes out from it, a word of peace to all nations. Without the Advent of God to our planet in Jesus, this is just a metaphor, but now it has become real, and there truly is room for peace and transformation. Such a call challenges us to live in this new space, and by our life today make room for whatever that word of God wishes to create.
Pray:
God, you delight to fulfil prophecy, and you have done this for all of us in the Advent of your Son Jesus. Help us today to carry forward and carry out your word, to turn words and weapons of harm to good, to make peace instead of war, and to walk in the light of the Lord, Amen.
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