God's salvation seemed impossible. Everything about her circumstances seemed to cry out that God had forgotten about Israel, that He had abandoned her. This is a reaction many people can have. We need to appreciate that the things that some people have gone through make it very difficult for them to believe.
How does God answer this? Not with a rebuke, but with a display of His compassion. The Lord has compassion upon us. It is good to understand the theology of the cross, but we also need to know the heart of God that lies behind it, the heart of God that motivated Him to send His Son to die on our behalf.
The Lord has compassion on His people, we are precious to Him. We need to lift up our eyes and we will see the salvation of God.
And this salvation will be infinitely greater than anything we have had before. See how hopeless things seemed to Israel, see how grounded in the "reality" of her situation this was. Yet God will bring blessing far beyond her wildest dreams. He will surprise us with blessing. God would use the nations to enable Israel's return to Jerusalem. Israel would be blessed in the sight of the whole world.
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