God views Jesus as a person, a servant who has a mission to perform, to bring the people of Israel back to God. Has Jesus fulfilled these prophecies of Isaiah? Christ has already become the light for many nations. The Gospel messages are read and heard worldwide, and the salvation of God reaches all people in every country. Christ has fulfilled this prophecy. God still waits with open arms
and gathers as many as willing to be enfolded in everlasting love.
In this passage, Isaiah speaks words of hope. God will send a servant who will return the Israelites to their homeland and restore the temple and the nation. New hope of returning to the way things were and to so much more.
God wants us to enjoy the kind of life he has planned for us and gives us a chance to do so. The ways and evils of this world must surely grieve God, especially knowing what our life could be like.
God wants to restore us as individuals, with others and God. Each new experience and opportunity given to us is not for us alone but for the world that God loves. God’s healing moves and expands, God’s story is way bigger than ours, and our stories are held within God’s life and love and woven into the future.
We have been given a chance at a new life in Christ. It is up to us to live this life as God intends, to share in the eternal love and salvation and to share the same with others.
