vision and mission

Monday Sept 7th, 2009; Isaiah 35: 5 Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. 6 Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. 7 The burning sand will become a pool, the thirsty ground bubbling springs. In the haunts where jackals once lay, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. A vision of when the Lord comes. But when does a vision become a mission? If indeed this is a vision, metaphorically or not, of when the Lord comes, so it not also be our mission in life as the children of God. Are we not called to work on brining about healing and wholeness both in the lives of the children of God and in the creation of God? Is this vision limited to a narrow tribal or national or ethnic view of God’s creation, or is it for all of God’s people and all of God’s creation? As we remember the story of the “Good Samaritan” we begin to get a glimpse of limitless expanse of God’s view of neighbor.