60:3
When the glory of the Lord rises upon us “nations will come to your light”, “kings to the brightness of your dawn”. There is something fundamental that we need to understand. The world, the man or woman without Christ, is indeed blinded. They cannot see the goodness of God and His ways. So what do we do? There are two wrong approaches. One is to try and go along with the blindness, to join them in their blindness. This is the path chosen by the “sin affirming churches”. The other wrong approach is to decide that the world is irrevocably blinded and effectively to write them off. This is equally wrong, for there is one way in which this blindness can be overcome, and that is by the work of the Holy Spirit. Now God involves us in His plans and His work. If we go down a sin-affirming route we can be certain that the Holy Spirit will have nothing to do with us. How does He want us to be involved in His work? We proclaim and live the truth. We do this knowing the reality of man’s blindness, but also the reality of God’s ability to end that blindness.
60:4
Isaiah then calls on the nation to wake up and look. When we are faithful to God’s ways we will see surprising results. People will come from afar, all sorts of people from all sorts of places will come, because God will have enabled them to see the glory of His light shining in us.
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