Look, a righteous king is coming! And honest princes will rule under him. Each one will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land. Then everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone who has ears will be able to hear it. [Isaiah 32.1-3]
In Kingdom-speak, this passage from Isaiah is amazing. As so much of Isaiah is prophetic, this passage is, in my opinion, no less.
A righteous king has indeed come. Jesus. And, again, in Kingdom-speak, He has set honest princes under Him. We are those princes!
If we see ourselves as "those princes," then, what is said about us must be true - it must be lived out.
We are to be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock in a parched land.
The Bible furthermore says that everyone with eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone with ears will be able to hear it (the truth).
What this is saying is that those princes have the same resources as the king. They have the authority of the king to do what the king does - to be a shelter and a refuge. If we are those princes, then we have our marching orders. Our work is well-defined for us.
Notice then, the use of the word, "Then..." It says "Then" everyone who has eyes will be able to see the truth, and everyone who has ears will be able to hear it." Not before the prices begin to rule, but "then" when they do begin to rule will everyone see and hear the truth.
So, what is this saying? It is saying that the princes better get to ruling in a way that can be likened to a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm! In other words, we have work to do!
Question: Do others see us as a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm? If not, "then" they will neither see nor hear the truth.
Wow.
Father, I have my job description here - to be a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm.
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