The perfect assurances for the future are freely received by faith

In this passage God, speaking through the prophet Isaiah, assures his people that their future will be certain in the Servant of the Lord. We find that God will make a new way that people can come to him. Jesus and what he has accomplished on the cross is this new way.

Isaiah further shows us that God doesn’t treat his people as their sins deserve. The people in Isaiah’s time were, however, not convinced because their city was in ruins and they were still in exile. God’s response to this, through the prophet, is ‘can a woman forget her nursing child?’ The surprising way God will bring about future blessings for his people will be through their enemies.

This sounds quite strange to us until we realise that before a person comes to faith in Christ, before they are converted, they are God’s enemies. This was until Jesus was made ‘a covenant’ for them. Therefore all those who have come to believe in Jesus and what he has done for them in his death and resurrection can know that their future is certain because their sins are forgiven.