Comfort, give comfort to my people,
says your God. (Isaiah 40:1 NABRE)
Lord, thank you for sending comfort to us who are your people. We need it often, feeling like exiles controlled by other masters and away from your presence. Thank you for the promise to return us from our exile and for your son, who shows us the way home.
This chapter from the prophet of Isaiah, written about 700 years before the birth of Jesus, is exciting! In it, the prophet predicts and describes not only Jesus, but his cousin, John, as well. Written at a time when the nation of Israel was exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon, this encouragement was also a foretelling of the arrival of Jesus who would end the exile of his followers. Further, and it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch, it reminds me of Moses who, many years before Isaiah, first led God's people from slavery to the promised land.
So, at its core, we seen the promise of salvation repeated and echoed in each situation through biblical history. Man sins. God saves.
Today, I will turn to God, seeking his comfort and his promise of salvation through his son Jesus, who's coming was foretold by Isaiah!
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