Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Isaiah 49:8-13
by: Victoria Shephard.
Just as God comforted Israel, he comforts us. These words are for us today as much as for Israel all those centuries ago. For every pronouncement of judgment against Israel, we find a promise of healing. In the prophets, God bares his heart, and that heart is love even though his people cause him pain by turning away from him and doing their own will rather than his. He will not give up on his people, no matter what. It was true of Israel, and it is true of us.