Christ paves the way out of the exile of human sin
by Julian Mann, TCW:
The Easter lilies this year were particularly lovely in their vases behind the Lord’s Table reminding us that it’s spring time. But within about a couple of weeks, they had to be taken out of the church because that’s about as long as they last.
I’m coming up to 52 this summer so have by God’s grace lasted longer than a lily but in the oceans of eternity even a long human life is a tiny drop. The word God spoke through the prophet Isaiah is surely true:
‘All people are like grass and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands for ever’ (Isaiah 40v6-8 – NIV).
The Word of our God in the Bible speaks to you and me of our eternal salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. What could be more important?
Just to give the historical context of this important prophecy in Isaiah chapter 40 – in Isaiah 39, in around the year 702 BC, the prophet has warned the King of Judah, Hezekiah, that the foreign country, namely Babylon, to whose ambassadors Hezekiah has just shown off all his wealth and military hardware in Jerusalem, will one day invade Judah, destroy its capital city Jerusalem and haul the Jewish people off into exile with hooks through their noses. Some of Hezekiah’s royal descendants will be castrated and made to serve as eunuchs in the palace of the King of Babylon. Rather pathetically Hezekiah replies: ‘The word of the Lord you have spoken is good,’ for he thought; ‘There will be peace and security in my lifetime’ (Isaiah 39v8).
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