The love expressed in Isaiah 54 is none other than the incredible love of God! This chapter pictures the love of God that never gives up until the very end! Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon for us. Though His people were barren, yet He had mercy on them. Though He was angry at His people and cast them away for a time, yet in His love and by His mercy He reached out to gather them again. To seek them and draw them with His love again, if only they might repent of their sins and be saved at last! This is the incredible love of God that is seeking out after us! He longs for us to be saved and for none to be lost, if there is any chance possible (2 Peter 2:9; Ezekiel 33:11). The choice of course lies within us to respond to His callings, and to, by His power, be overcomes together with Christ Jesus!
Just take a moment to read through Isaiah 54 and meditate upon the incredible redeeming love of God!
“Sing, O barren,
You who have not borne!
Break forth into singing, and cry aloud,
You who have not labored with child!
For more are the children of the desolate
Than the children of the married woman,” says the Lord.
Meditation: Though it seems like you have no hope in life, but only trial, sadness, or hardship, yet God has many blessings for you, and so many things for you to simply enjoy and rejoice about. Therefore, rejoice!
2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
And let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings;
Do not spare;
Lengthen your cords,
And strengthen your stakes.
3 For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.
4 “Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed;
Neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame;
For you will forget the shame of your youth,
And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
5 For your Maker is your husband,
The Lord of hosts is His name;
And your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel;
He is called the God of the whole earth.
Meditation: God and His holy presence is our greatest blessing and fulfillment in life! Seek Him! We need not be ashamed when we have the Lord on our side! Don’t let present circumstances beat you down because God will be the One who will bring blessings to you! They are now, and they are coming, even more so! Never be disheartened but only rejoice in the Lord!
6 For the Lord has called you
Like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit,
Like a youthful wife when you were refused,”
Says your God.
7 “For a mere moment I have forsaken you,
But with great mercies I will gather you.
8 With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment;
But with everlasting kindness I will have mercy on you,”
Says the Lord, your Redeemer.
9 “For this is like the waters of Noah to Me;
For as I have sworn
That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth,
So have I sworn
That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.
10 For the mountains shall depart
And the hills be removed,
But My kindness shall not depart from you,
Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed,”
Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.
Meditation: Incredible love of God! Incredible mercy He has shown us!! Though it may all appear to you so hard now at this time. Though it appears that you may have been forsaken or forgotten about, yet the Lord has NOT forgotten you! He thinks loving and tender thoughts of you. Even if He had been angry at your sin, yet He has not removed His covenant of peace from you! He has remained faithful in His untiring and relentless love for you! Though floods come, and mountains crumble, though the earth shake or your heart be troubled with deep sorrow, yet the God of love and peace stands calmly and firmly by in His covenant of peace which He will not remove! Only seek Him more!
11 “O you afflicted one,
Tossed with tempest, and not comforted,
Behold, I will lay your stones with colorful gems,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.
12 I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
Your gates of crystal,
And all your walls of precious stones.
13 All your children shall be taught by the Lord,
And great shall be the peace of your children.
14 In righteousness you shall be established;
You shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear;
And from terror, for it shall not come near you.
15 Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me.
Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.
16 “Behold, I have created the blacksmith
Who blows the coals in the fire,
Who brings forth an instrument for his work;
And I have created the spoiler to destroy.
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment
You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,
And their righteousness is from Me,”
Says the Lord.
Meditation: Though we have been afflicted and tossed by hardships, though comforts have seemed to escape from us and to leave us barren, though enemies have sought to slay us and made grave attacks upon us, though we have felt hurt or in pain, yet God says, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” If a “tongue rises against us in judgment” to condemn us for our faults, yet God says, “You shall condemn” that tongue. As the servant of Christ Jesus this blessing is yours because our righteousness comes not merely from ourselves but from Christ Jesus! “Their righteousness is from Me, says the Lord!” God will establish, bless, comfort, and enrich us fully through Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior! Blessed be His name!
