Stock markets and commodity exchange floors are frentic venues. Even the bidding floor at the Dutch flower exchange is a frantic place where bidding for fragrance and beauty is hectic. Supermarkets, open-air markets - all are places of exchange that reflect our frantic paced living.
Looking at Isaiah 55 in The Message, it is a place full of exchanges, with out the frentic. It is the place of gentle life giving exchanges. The room of exchanging darkness for Light.
thirst for free drink
unnutritious food for food of the soul
deafness for hearing
broken promises for everlasting binding covenants
abandonment for being found
lostness for mercy
judgement for pardon
limited thought patterns for ways beyond imagining
unhealthy thoughts for higher thoughts
parched unusable ground for well watered fertile ground
starvation for full abundant crops
Perhaps those exchanges may be overwhelming but they are necessary to living with passion and colour.
Lady Wisdom then brings advise on how to live with those exchanges when she says I am both insight and the virtue to live it out. Proverbs 12:14 The Message
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