God’s Amazing Grace

♦ December 6, 2025 ♦ Leave a comment


 

40 Comfort, comfort my people,
    says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and proclaim to her
that her hard service has been completed,
    that her sin has been paid for,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double for all her sins.

3 A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
    the way for the Lord[a];
make straight in the desert
    a highway for our God.[b]
4 Every valley shall be raised up,
    every mountain and hill made low;
the rough ground shall become level,
    the rugged places a plain.
5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,
    and all people will see it together.
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

 

“Oh, how I love Jesus, oh how I love Jesus, oh how I love Jesus, because He first loved me.” And, oh how I love this 40th chapter of Isaiah.

 

First, God wants to assure His people that their exile is almost over. Why were they in exile? Disobedience. Idol worship.  When we turn away from God and try to find answers anywhere else, we, too, will find ourselves in exile.

 

Secondly, we see the hope of our salvation—Jesus! We see that Isaiah looked through time as though he was turning a page in a book and saw Jesus, both as our Savior and our King.

 

May we take the time during this Christmas season to celebrate the baby in the manger, to honor the One born to die for our sins, and to glorify our coming King.

 

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

 

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