Fourth Sunday in Lent: Old Testament, Isaiah 42:14-21                           

Isaiah 42:14-21

There is a strange (wonderful) truth running through Holy Scripture. God wants His people to be with Him. And you’re only a couple pages into the book of Genesis before You find God, who has been present with His first human creations, coming after them when He would have been justified in destroying them following their rebellion. He actually inquires after His “firstborn” son, Adam when He knows well just where to find Him. It’s not about location, but vocation. God as Father and Adam and Eve as children of the Most High.

Our text from Isaiah this week brings God’s provision of the way home into focus. “I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them (Isaiah 42:16). Very much along the pattern in the garden, God comes after his erring children in sending them His Servant who always does His will. Isaiah brings God’s description of Him forward in the first verse of this chapter: “Behold! My Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom my soul delights!” This is the One who both calls our names and leads us from our darkness into His marvelous light.

Lost, we were. God sends His best to find us. And to bring us all the way home.