Comfort

Isaiah 40:1 AMPC

Comfort, comfort My people, says your God

Let's look at the definition of "comfort" in the dictionary - "the easing or alleviation of a person's feelings of grief or distress".

Yet that is not quite the essence of the meaning here. Rather it means to strengthen, encourage and empower.

This wonderful, inspiring chapter was written to a people in exile in Babylon. They had been taken away from their promised homeland and were enslaved by foreigners!

They believed God had deserted them and some had turned to idols, man-made stuff to worship.

They had lost hope, faraway from home and were trapped by circumstances.

In the midst of this terrible situation the Lord gives His word to Isaiah and instructs him to bring comfort.

Please read this entire chapter and let it encourage your own heart and mind.

The Lord wants to speak tenderly to YOU too.

He wants to bring hope in the midst of despair.

These are not empty promises from a lifeless idol - they are promises from the Creator of the cosmos.

Do governments and tyrannies seem indestructible? They are as nothing to our God - just a breath, like grass that withers and fades.

Everything that seems so threatening to us today is transitory.

I encourage you to wait before the Lord if you are faltering in your own situation:

Isaiah 40:29 AMPC

He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength [causing it to multiply and making it to abound].

What a promise! God IS there watching over your life - He sees, He knows, He understands, He cares and He promises His help as you wait before Him.

Honestly, this verse means so much to me.

I've been battling a syndrome that causes unnatural fatigue. I literally live by this verse and have proved it to be true time and time again.

Come with me and let's be comforted by the Spirit of the Lord today as we wait in His Presence. Let the clouds break and see His love come shining through.

Let's give our weary hearts to the One who can give us eagle's wings to soar above the tempests of life.

Isaiah 40 :31 But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

This link is to a 'tube of short explanation of Isaiah 40:1 [I cribbed a bit!] https://youtu.be/n_57zHWGcW0 Attachments area Preview YouTube video Comfort, comfort my people: The meaning of Isaiah 40:1 Comfort, comfort my people: The meaning of Isaiah 40:1