His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of His ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the LORD of Heaven's Armies will guarantee this! (Isa. 9:7).
When Christians speak about God and His will they normally think of it in terms of what He expects of them personally: "Would it be God's will if I give up this job and look for another?" or "What does God expect me to do or give for His work?" God does have a will for the individual, but He also has a will for the whole world.
In this verse, Isaiah sets out his wish for the tiny Judah and what God expects from His world as a whole. Omnipotence is part of God's royal rule. There cannot be a power vacuum, but what God expects is responsible use of power and integrity from those who exercise it. He wants them to acknowledge that their power and authority are from Him, and they will account for the way they exercise it.
The fact is that many people are after power for their own selfish purposes. God wants peace on earth and He expects that it will not only be in the form of a short break between one war and the next, but forever. Too often peace is sacrificed by rulers driven by a need for more power.
The bottom line is: Everything God expects from His world boils down to justness and righteousness; the healthy warmhearted, sincere moral order of those things that allow people to live creatively and peacefully under Christ's dominium.
Almighty God, let righteousness and peace flourish all over Your world. Amen.
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