God’s energy

21 Apr 2016 | by John Southern

John Southern reflects on the nature of words and deeds

'Humans communicate with words. Every orator knows the power of words. Every poet and every lover knows how we can be moved beyond our expectation.' | Photo: sean hobson / flickr CC.

I was struck the other day by a passage in Isaiah (Isaiah 55:8-13). The poet compares the ‘ways of the Lord’ with what at school I was taught to call ‘the water cycle’.

For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returns not thither, but waters the earth, and makes it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goes forth out of my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please…

(Verses 10-11)

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