From sea to shining sea!

Zechariah 9: 9-12

    ⁹Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion ! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem ! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.  ¹⁰He will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war-horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall command peace to the nations; his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.  ¹¹As for you also, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.  ¹²Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; today I declare that I will restore to you double.

God's dominion is supposed to be from sea to sea.  As a Christian I believe this was made possible by the expansion that Jesus asked his disciples to spend their lives putting in place.  The fulfillment of God becoming available for relationship with all people.  This sea to sea domain to the ends of the earth is not possible unless we, as current disciples, take up the same gumption and commitment to Jesus' original idea that all the world be reconciled.