BULLDOZERS
“A voice says, ‘Cry out!’ I answer, ‘What shall I cry out?’ ” —Isaiah 40:6 When we think of Christmas preparations, we think of trees, cards, presents, cookies, and candles. However, the Bible speaks of a different kind of preparation. To prepare the way of the Lord, we must turn a desert wasteland into “a highway for our God” (Is 40:3). This means bulldozers, earthmovers, dynamite, a fleet of dump trucks, and the Army Corps of Engineers. It would take all that to lay low mountains and hills and use them as fill dirt for valleys (Is 40:4). It’s a...