A PORTION OF HOPE

Isaiah is a very beautiful book in the Bible.

It speaks of deep emotions and the language of judgment. I think it is all about judgment and describing the sins of God’s people. However, I am only on the other half of my discovery of what is really the book of Isaiah all about.

When we look at deeper on a larger scale, the book is not about judgment and cruelty of God to HIS failing and sinful people. The book of Isaiah is all about God’s great love for His people. Do you think so, too? Let us see how. I did not see this by reading it ones. Then focusing on the character of God I realized that the judgment God pronounced is for their good. The judgment He proclaims is to bring them back into His arms. (Is there anything like that?)

This judgment, at first look is like thrown against God’s people because of the experience of hardships, fall, and exile, however, in the run of history we see that it is for their good, it is for them to realize how far they have gone their own way. The exile was the consequence of their own choice to neglect the God who brought them out of Egypt, to reject the life in God and welcome the gods of the nations they serve or surrounding them.

Another very important thing that helps us see Isaiah’s treasure is the PRESENCE OF HOPE in THE EXECUTION OF HIS PEOPLE. God’s love subjected judgment—a seemingly hopeless situation to HIS people—but it did not end there, THERE IS HOPE AND NOT JUST ORDINARY HOPE, IT IS A GREAT HOPE. It is a hope of a greater deliverance—the deliverance of God’s people not just in their future bondage but also in their spiritual bondage— a deliverance in Jesus Christ.

The book of Isaiah gives us a greater reality in God. He never leaves His people. He cannot prevent the consequences of our decisions to leave Him but He never will ever leave us in the experience. He will faithfully go through the experience with us.

What a love! It was our sins and it was our choice—we were the reason of our own misfortune—but God promised to go through the experience with us. Even before we suffer, He already suffered the very payment of our past, present, and even future sins!

Isaiah is a book of hope not just for our present troubles but of our future glory in Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus, we can grow amidst the bitter consequences of our own choices!