Isaiah chapter 59: Bridging the gaps of separation

59:2 ‘But your iniquities have separated you from your God’.

Sin is that which separates us from God and from our neighbour – near and far.  It blocks any positive and life-giving relationship with others. But, there is a remedy for sin. It is in ‘the arm of the Lord’ which ‘is not too short to save’ (verse 1) because his ear is not too dull to hear (verse 1). God stretches out to us in our misery, confusion and sin. And this is salvation – that we can merit his saving help but He has chosen to love us with an everlasting covenant.

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O Root of Jesse, standing as a sign among the peoples;

before you kings will shut their mouths,

to you the nations will make their prayer:

Come and deliver us, and delay no longer.

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