Isaiah here gives the reason for the waiting in God's providence because the Lord will be gracious and compassionate to those who wait for him. Isaiah sees the Lord is a God of justice.
Although Israelite endured even in the face of what looked like certain death. Isaiah promised the deliverance and the result, that is, a rivival of trust and in God and consequent growth of righteousness and prosperity for the city for a long period, that is, most of the lifetime of those who had seen the siege.
They were chargeable with distrust, and were distressed by strange uneasiness and restlessness of mind; for they were fearfully harassed by their unbelief, so that they could not "wait" calmly. to cure this vice, he enjoins them to "wait", that is, to hope.
Now, hope is nothing else than steadfastness of faith, that is, when we wait calmly till the Lord fulfill what he has promised. when he says that they who shall patiently "wait" for him will be "blessed," he declares, on the other hand, that thay who allow themselves to be hurried away by impatience, and do not repent of their sins and their wickedness, are wretched and miserable, and will at length perish; for without hope in God there can be no salvation or happiness.
and this Isaiah's substantial message of waiting to hope for God's grace and compassion could extent to second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in new testament context as we living in this unstable today's culture which focused on materrialism drives the society corrupted to sin just like Isaiah had lived in ancient time.
Through all the advents of our life, we shall wait and look forward with longing for that day of the Lord when God says, "i am making everything new!" advent is a time of waiting. Our whole life is a time of waiting; waiting for the time when there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
We should be walking in the way jesus has taught us, making the gospel evident which God gave us the eternal life through our life bathed in the Holy Spirit.
Isn't eternity the intrinsic hope of waiting that revealed on Isaiah's proclamation of God's word applied in today's culture?
scc student devotional reading; isaiah 30:18, kye chul Yi
Hope...Isaiah 30: 18
Isaiah here gives the reason for the waiting in God's providence because the Lord will be gracious and compassionate to those who wait for him. Isaiah sees the Lord is a God of justice.
Although Israelite endured even in the face of what looked like certain death. Isaiah promised the deliverance and the result, that is, a rivival of trust and in God and consequent growth of righteousness and prosperity for the city for a long period, that is, most of the lifetime of those who had seen the siege.
They were chargeable with distrust, and were distressed by strange uneasiness and restlessness of mind; for they were fearfully harassed by their unbelief, so that they could not "wait" calmly. to cure this vice, he enjoins them to "wait", that is, to hope.
Now, hope is nothing else than steadfastness of faith, that is, when we wait calmly till the Lord fulfill what he has promised. when he says that they who shall patiently "wait" for him will be "blessed," he declares, on the other hand, that thay who allow themselves to be hurried away by impatience, and do not repent of their sins and their wickedness, are wretched and miserable, and will at length perish; for without hope in God there can be no salvation or happiness.
and this Isaiah's substantial message of waiting to hope for God's grace and compassion could extent to second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in new testament context as we living in this unstable today's culture which focused on materrialism drives the society corrupted to sin just like Isaiah had lived in ancient time.
Through all the advents of our life, we shall wait and look forward with longing for that day of the Lord when God says, "i am making everything new!" advent is a time of waiting. Our whole life is a time of waiting; waiting for the time when there will be a new heaven and a new earth.
We should be walking in the way jesus has taught us, making the gospel evident which God gave us the eternal life through our life bathed in the Holy Spirit.
Isn't eternity the intrinsic hope of waiting that revealed on Isaiah's proclamation of God's word applied in today's culture?
scc student devotional reading; isaiah 30:18, kye chul Yi