When the grass goes away, 

new growth appears, and the plants of the hills are gathered, 

then the lambs will provide your clothes, and the goats will be the price of your fields.

There will be enough goat's milk for your food, for the food of your house, and to nourish your young women.

Proverbs 27:25-27 CEB

This is a picture of a flourishing system, where everything works, where there is enough to meet everyone's needs, a picture of shalom, peace & prosperity, a picture of how the world should be. 

How we want it to be.

But our world is marred by all kinds of things, greed which hoards resources & takes without waiting or depletes others.

Our world is marred by injustice.

Our world is marred by loss and death itself. 

So this proverb becomes then a picture of the hope that we hold. It was written centuries before Jesus yet we can sense it pointing to a redeemed world, a world where greed is gone, justice has rolled down and overwhelmed injustice, and where death itself is banished. 

For now we work towards that, and hold to the Living Hope, who is Jesus.

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