With Better Vision

The prophet’s land was continually threatened by the Assyrian army. In his day that army came and wiped out Israel to the north, raided Judah, and besieged Jerusalem. But in prophetic vision, Isaiah saw a time of great contrast to this. Instead of a worried, threatened king, he saw a King dwelling in majesty and beauty. Instead of a besieged city, he beheld a land whose boundaries were unlimited. He rose above his sight of a defeated king, subject to a foreign power, and envisioned a King beaming with the joy of victory in an unfettered land. The prophet was enabled by God to blend thoughts of present salvation (vv. 14-16) with the time of the consummation of that salvation. The salvation of God’s people is assured for all time. In the mind of the believer, the trials of the present fade into insignificance if he only contemplates that glorious time when he will dwell in the presence of his King, of the Majesty resplendent in supreme beauty and glory.

Taken from The Devotional Daily Bible