Sunday Meditation: Make Straight His Paths

I love John the Baptist crying out in the desert: “Make straight His paths!”

 

In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the desert.

 

He went throughout [the] whole region of the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins, as it is written in the book of the words of the prophet Isaiah:

 

“A voice of one crying out in the desert:

‘Prepare the way of the Lord,

make straight his paths.  Every valley shall be filled

and every mountain and hill shall be made low.

The winding roads shall be made straight,

and the rough ways made smooth, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”

       -Lk 3:1-6

I am also struck with that last line: “and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” 

This is lovely.