Isaiah 35:1-10
James 5:7-10
Matthew 11:2-11
Sermon delivered at Ballard First Lutheran Church, Seattle, WA
The prophet Isaiah says: “The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad… The eyes of the blind shall be opened… sorrow and sighing shall flee away…”
Almost every statement in this prophecy is about the future.
What if we take this beautiful, hopeful vision and turn it around? If everything is future tense, that certainly implies that this lesson from Isaiah is the collective vision of a yearning people. Where were they, in relation to his vision?