Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Isaiah 40:1-10
by: Jennifer Lewis Berg.
And now for the good news: God was declaring to His people that their comfort was finally coming. What followed is poetic and essential. After all the sin and all the punishment, God was giving His people not what they deserved, but what His love for them meant to Him—a clean slate, stamped “paid in full,” from God’s own hands, doubly generous and gracious. The crookedness of their sins were being made straight, the roughness of their sinful lives would be made smooth. And, best of all, the glory of God would be shown to all His people. Despite the death, the frailty, and the inconsistencies of man, God and His promises go on forever. God wants His power, His mercy, and His love to be declared from the top of every mountain.