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Fearless Peace

Isaiah 11:1-10 ; Luke 1:26-38 If there were a place in the world where fear does not exist, would you want to go there? Maybe you’ve already been there. Take a moment and think about that. Think about the times and places when you have felt the safest; the freest; the most sincerely aware that you were unique in the world and loved by others and beloved by God and treated with kindness. Do you have that moment in your mind? Hold onto it, if you do. Don’t worry. I’m not going to challenge it or try to make you feel bad or awkward about it. I only want to honor it for what it is. Maybe you don’t have just one moment like that. Maybe you have too many to choose from. Whatever memories you have conjured up let us be thankful for them, because some have none. It may be that we who have many are called to create moments like these for others, but let’s hold that thought for a minute or two as well as we consider God’s word for us today. The prophecy of Isaiah, which finds fulfillment in the ...