September 21, 2025
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Happy Sunday,
Constant headlines about spiraling violence and division had me longing for a better world this week—and thankful for the promises of Scripture. Listen to how the prophet Isaiah describes the world that’s coming:
“‘For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind…
[My people] shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be…
Before they call I will answer;
while they are yet speaking I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,’
says the Lord.”
Isaiah 65:17-25 (ESV)
In the new heavens and new earth, the Lord is undoing the curses of the exile. God’s people were facing the exact consequences for disobedience He’d promised… and now, in the thick of their darkest days, He’s speaking promises of reversal and restoration.
The past two weeks have been a terrible page in America’s story. It may change the course of the nation. But it does not change the trajectory of believers’ stories, which have been written with a happy ending from the beginning of time. God will unmake evil and reign in perfect peace.
Pray with me as you wait on Him:
Yours in Christ,
Steph Juliot
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