When Every Trouble is Made Right

Isaiah 40:4 KJV

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

This is the most positive chapter in all of Isaiah, maybe all of the Old Testament. It seems to me like this verse expresses the positive in brief but beautiful pictures.

·         Valleys

·         Mountains

·         Crooked paths and

·         Rough places

all have their own form of beauty to be sure, but they are all types of challenge and trouble. I wonder if we haven’t come to see them as beautiful as an escape mechanism when we see the obstacles they present.

God promises a day when every trouble and every challenge is made right.

·         Valleys exalted

·         Mountains and hills made low

·         Crooked straightened

·         Rough places made plain

I do not see this as a bleak and boring world, but one in which

·         All of the beauty of the valley will be retained but none of the depths of depression

·         All of the grandeur of the mountains will remain but none of the hurdle

·         All of the romance of the winding path with none of the gloom and

·         All of the adventure of the rough place with any of the hardship

The rose will smell as sweet, but will have no thorn.

What a blessing will that day be.

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