5 Minute Meditation - The Pride & Blasphemy of Our Own Might & Power

Into the Brambles: March 25, 2026

Scripture of the Day

See, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
his reward is with him
and his recompense before him.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms
and carry them in his bosom
and gently lead the mother sheep.

Isaiah 40:10-11

Reflection for the Coming Day

One of humanity’s greatest blindspots is that we still, after the entire narrative of scripture, measure power and might by human standards rather than by the model laid out by the Creator.

We still favor force.
We still savor victory.

As I write this reflection, my own country has joined with an Israel that bears no resemblance to the nation God wished to lead in a war they are not so unabashedly labeling as a holy war.

But outside a small sliver of scripture, the God we see is not a God who demands military victory or the validation won on the battlefield.

In this passage from Isaiah, we see the Lord God coming in his might. The entirety of justice is within his arms.

And wh…