In Isaiah, chapter fifty-four, verses eleven through seventeen, these theme verses describe the Lord comforts Jerusalem, as He would a person, by describing the peace, righteousness, and glory of the restored remnant of the future. John uses similar imagery in describing the conditions of the new Jerusalem in the New Testament, as in Revelation twenty-one, verses ten, and eighteen through twenty-one. These words bring comfort to believers who are experiencing great affliction or adversity. When we are weighed down by trials and shaken by tempests of life’s circumstances, we must remember that these are the very conditions that cause our Lord to have compassion on us and draw us so that we may be spiritually strengthened.
Let the people of God, when afflicted and tossed, think they hear God speaking comfortably to them by these words, taking notice of their griefs and fears. The church is all glorious when full of the knowledge of God, for none teaches like Him. It is a promise of the teaching and gifts of the Holy Spirit. All that are taught of God, are taught to love one another. This seems to relate especially to the glorious times to succeed the tribulations of the church.
Holiness, more than anything, is the beauty of the church. God promises protection. There shall be no fears within; there shall be no fightings without. Military men value themselves on their splendid titles, but God calls them Wasters made to destroy, for they make wasting and destruction their business. He created them and will serve His own designs by them.
The day is coming when God will reckon with wicked men for their hard speeches, as in Jude one, verse fifteen. Security and final victory are the heritage of each faithful servant of the Lord. The righteousness by which they are justified, and the grace by which they are sanctified, are the gift of God, and the effect of his special love. Let us beseech him to sanctify our souls, and to employ us in his service.