Isaiah 35 describes the coming kingdom of God. This text was used by Handel for a recitative from Messiah to portray the glorious characteristics of Christ’s reign. Only those redeemed by the sacrificial blood of Christ will reside there, and every aspect of life there will be completely pure and holy. It will be so different from what life now offers with its exhausting tension between the right and the wrong.

God’s Word is the only place we find the description of this kingdom. It generates hope for the future rather than the darkness we find all around us.

READ/HEAR: Is. 31-35