Comfort Is Coming

Feb 28

Week 3: Waiting for Comfort, Preparing for Grace

We have taken time to pause and we have talked about waiting and silence. About trust, and hope forming before it is visible. And bout preparing the heart. None of this has been accidental.

Isaiah 1–39 showed us that the human heart cannot fix itself. Human leaders cannot secure lasting peace. Strength alone is not enough and religious effort does not produce righteousness.

That all needed to be seen and understood clearly. Because Isaiah 40 begins with a completely different tone.

Comfort.

Not denial of failure or pretending that everything is fine. Comfort.

Why? Because God is not finished, and we knew that. We left Isaiah 39 knowing that King Hezekiah was not the messiah and that the promised One was still to come.

The promise spoken in Isaiah 9, the child, the Son, the One who carries authority, was not just nice poetic language. It was intentional and structural. Can you feel it? It has been building.

Grace has been moving forward, even while judgment was being spoken. And hope has been forming, at the same time weakness was being exposed. And God’s still voice has been speaking to us, knowing there is more to come.

Now we are about to see it unfold. Isaiah 40–66 is more than encouragement, it is explanation. It answers the question that has been forming underneath everything.

If we cannot save ourselves, what will God do?

Comfort is coming because God Himself (The Main Actor) is acting.

And Not through another human king or effort, but through His Servant. The Servant.

If that raises questions for you, that is good. It should. We are about to climb into some of the most important chapters in Scripture.

So I encourage you, read slowly, listen carefully and expect to have those wow moments when you get to see more clearly who God is, and why He acts the way He does.

Because comfort is coming. And it matters more than we think.

Selah.

Prayer

Father God,

Thank You for not leaving us where our strength ends. Thank You for exposing what cannot save us and for preparing us to see Him, the One who can.

As we step into Isaiah 40, steady our hearts Lord. Help us to listen carefully and to understand more clearly who You are and what You are doing.

Prepare my heart to receive Your comfort and to understand Your amazing grace.

In Jesus name we pray, Amen.