The Comforter Has, Is Coming

Read Isaiah 40
 
Isaiah 40:1-5 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3 A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. 5 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it.”  
 
THE LORD gave this view of his comfort, deliverance and glory to Judah through Isaiah many years before he sent the Jews into exile. He is a good Father, who wanted his people to have his comfort with them as they suffered the penalty of their sins. He is a good Father, who does not judge to destroy, but administers justice to discipline, correct, refine, restore and teach. His justice is to winnow the chaff from the wheat for the true harvest of his faithful church.
    “Comfort, comfort my people.” Then remained on the faithful Jews’ hearts long after the exile. Their troubles and conflicts from other nations continued generation upon generation. The Jews’ hope was God’s comfort promise as they awaited the Messiah.
    We praise God the Comfort has come. John the Baptist would be the voice out of the wilderness to make a straight highway to reveal God’s Comfort. Jesus, the Son of God, stepped into the wilderness to deliver the Jews and the world into faith. In Jesus, we have come to know God’s glorious deliverance unto his eternal comfort. Jesus Christ born, crucified, died, risen, and ascended gives flesh and blood to the Lord’s comfort.
    In grace, the Spirit has released the Comforter to personally come to the Father’s own. He display God’s deliverance and glory to regenerate life into heaven’s eternal comfort.
    Today, we of the church must keep these words close to us, too, as we await the Messiah’s return. Be confident in Christ. Know the Comforter has come to die that you may live. Be comforted to know he has ascended to heaven. The Comforter is coming again.
 
Revelation 1:5-7 To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father — to him be glory and power forever and ever! Amen. 7 Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him.