Isaiah 40 - it's a commission to all of God's ministers, you and me. Comfort God's people. Speak tenderly to them. Tell them they are forgiven. They will receive double from the Lord's hand. These people saw Jerusalem "ripening for ruin" and they couldn't help themselves. They were melancholy for good reasons. But they needed to look further. God had mercy in store. So, what's the point here. Comfort, you comfort. Doubled down. They needed it in the worst of times and so do we. Make straight in this desert, a highway for God. Every valley shall be lifted up and every mountain and hill be made low. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed. Isa 40:1-4.
“Patient sufferers have most of the Divine consolations, which abound as afflictions abound. It works needful experience of ourselves. This hope will not disappoint, because it is sealed with the Holy Spirit as a Spirit of love. God sheds abroad the love of God in the hearts of all the saints. A right sense of God's love to us, will make us not ashamed, either of our hope, or of our sufferings for him." Matthew Henry.
Just watched a story on the "I Am Second" website about Ethan: http://www.iamsecond.com/ethan/ This 13-year-old is not ashamed of his suffering and neither am I.
Just watched a story on the "I Am Second" website about Ethan: http://www.iamsecond.com/ethan/ This 13-year-old is not ashamed of his suffering and neither am I.
Therefore present yourselves to God as alive from the dead." Rom 6:13. People don't want us to suffer---they don't want to hear the trodden stories. And they miss the Grace of God there.
PHOTO: The Hound of Heaven comes. From the days of Jerusalem to the days of hill country, He comes.
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