the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God." - Isaiah 40:1.
And how were the servants of God to comfort the people of God? By telling them of Christ. This became the burden of Isaiah’s prophecies, as recorded in the fortieth chapter and onwards; and all the prophets his successors continued this strain. This was the banquet that God saw fit to provide for his ancient people. They demanded other comfort, and demanded in vain. When Jesus himself appeared, they refused to accept the comfort; they saw no beauty in him that they should desire him. They asked for one that should deliver them from the Roman yoke; make them honorable and powerful above all nations; and spread a favoring mantle over all their sins. They would none of God’s comfort. But the banquet which they scorned to honor with their presence, was not left without guests; the broken and contrite of all nations, the poverty-stricken, the sick, the blind, these came and partook; and lo! they were comforted, they were made whole and crowns of everlasting joy were seen upon their heads; while the rejecter’s soon found themselves the poorest and unhappiest in creation, deprived of the very shadows which they had preferred to the substance.
We are to comfort God’s people by presenting Christ to them, and showing them their need of this very Messiah and no other. And if they are unwilling to be comforted in this Way, we are not at liberty to give them comfort in any other way. Any other way is a way of delusion.
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