Isaiah chapter 60 is about you. It describes what God’s blessing looks like for you. It is about you because what is described here are the blessings of the New Covenant that Isaiah looked forward to, a covenant that was put into effect by Jesus Christ. These promises are for those who have been grafted into the covenant family tree by entrusting themselves to Christ. So, this passage is not just about you. It is about US. These oracles in Isaiah 60 are clearly written, not just to one person but, to a group of people whom God chose to embody these promises together. A blessing is not really a blessing if we cannot share it and enjoy it together. This passage is about the New Covenant community, the church, of which you are a part. In fact, this chapter looks even further forward. It looks beyond this age to the new heavens and the new earth which is described in Revelation 21-22 using the very same imagery as Isaiah here (cf vs.19 with Revelation 22:5). Just because it casts forward to the new age, however, does not mean it doesn’t provide any promise for now. God wants that future reality to be breaking into the world now. He wants you to embody the essence of his new creation now so that you can be a living herald of what the future holds. Read the words of Isaiah 60 prayerfully and appropriate them for yourself and your church.
Pray for God to make these things a reality in your life and in your church.
Read Isaiah 60
