54:5
Remember all this is expressed in terms of an analogy of a barren woman, and probably an unmarried woman. In that culture if a woman was barren a man would not want her as a wife. So we should not press the point of God being our husband too far. It is an analogy. ie no silly services of women “marrying God”! What it means is that God Himself makes good all the failings and sufferings we have endured. This applies to men and women, and it is a quite amazing promise. God Himself is my saviour and your saviour. Yet so often we will settle for something so much less. We need to appreciate the greatness of the gift we have in Christ.
54:6
This paints us as a rejected wife, one who had been given a certificate of divorce, and we have all been rejected by God. After the fall we were banished from Eden, and a flaming sword stops us ever getting back there (Gen 3:24). We need to give full weight to God’s rejection of us if we are to appreciate the full weight of His salvation.
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