Isaiah 32-36

“Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble. Say to those with anxious hearts, ‘Take courage, fear not’” (35:4). Isaiah prophesied that “The ransomed of the Lord will return … and sorrow and sighing will flee away” (v10). In his time, Israel was disobedient and threatened by Assyria. But sin and failure were only part of the story, “until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fertile field” (32:15).

The Spirit has been poured out. We can take courage that all of Isaiah’s prophecy will be fulfilled, and our broken world made new.