All Flesh Shall See the Salvation of God
All flesh shall see the salvation of God,
And not just the rulers, the well off and proud,
Not just the ones who live in the right places,
Who get lots of press and are known by their faces,
Not just the people who rule in the tabloids,
Or out on the field, with their skill or their steroids,
But you! With your wrongs, and the things you've not righted,
Will think again, seeing that God is delighted
To break every barrier that keeps separated
The people for whom Love, these long years, has waited.
Scott L. Barton
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. He went into all the region around 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, “The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth; and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’”
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