Isaiah continues his appeal to God to act and bring about transformation. There is an inevitable tension in the Christian hope. We have a glorious hope, we know God can do it, we know God will do it eventually, but He seems awfully slow in doing so, He seems to allow terrible situations to develop or persist, and for no good reason. Many of the Bible writers, both in the old and new testaments, have expressed or considered this matter.
God is faithful and God is mighty. Verse 5 expresses the root of the problem, "when we continued to sin, you were angry. How then can we be saved?". Isaiah knows where the problem lies, and it is not with God, it is with us. It is the sin within us that is the problem. It is our sin that has separated us from God.
Yet Isaiah does not give up hope. He knows that God is our Father and He is still the One who created us. He appeals to God's mercy and to the terrible plight that Israel was enduring, and so calls on God to act.
So many today seem so eager to "prove" that there is no God, that we came about just by random chance, and with no purpose. Yet our only hope lies in the God who created us.
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