Saturday, December 6, 2008

Day 8-Isaiah 40:1-5

"Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.


"A voice of one calling: 'In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it.' For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."


What a blessing to know that because of Christ, our "hard service" is complete. Christ's work on the cross was totally sufficient to pay the punishment for all our sins, past, present, and future. All we can do is place our faith in Him, and our "sin has been paid for." That's the glory of the Lord, revealed to all at Christmas and throughout the life of Christ.

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