“For the LORD comforts his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.”

Isaiah 49:13b
Many of us have known the gloom that can accompany overcast, rainy days. My niece was feeling that one day along with the continuing sting of her mother’s sudden death a year earlier. She decided to clean out a bookcase to take her mind off her sorrow. Then she found on the shelf the story of her mother’s life, hidden away and forgotten in a book. It was as if God had interrupted her melancholy remembrances and embraced her. The light of His comfort worked its way in like the sun peeking through the clouds.

Isaiah voiced that sense of feeling forgotten by God. But his prophetic words assure us that the eternal God does not forget His own. He has compassion and will lead them beside springs of water. Centuries later Jesus came to seek and to save the lost, to be a wellspring of life for those who believe, to be for us “like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth” (2 Samuel 23:4).

His love will embrace us, breaking in at the hour of need.



Scripture Focus

Isaiah 49:13-18

Insight

“The LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of sorrow will end.” (Isaiah 60:20)

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