Mountains Will Be Laid Low

Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God. “Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the Lord’s hand Double for all her sins.” A voice is calling, “Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God. Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley; Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” A voice says, “Call out.” Then he answered, “What shall I call out?” All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, When the breath of the Lord blows upon it; Surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever. Get yourself up on a high mountain, O Zion, bearer of good news, Lift up your voice mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news; Lift it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!” Behold, the Lord God will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him And His recompense before Him. Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes. Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales? Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, Or as His counselor has informed Him? With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge And informed Him of the way of understanding? Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust. Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, Nor its beasts enough for a burnt offering. All the nations are as nothing before Him, They are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless. To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare with Him? As for the idol, a craftsman casts it, A goldsmith plates it with gold, And a silversmith fashions chains of silver. He who is too impoverished for such an offering Selects a tree that does not rot; He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman To prepare an idol that will not totter. Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble. “To whom then will you liken Me That I would be his equal?” says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.  Isaiah 40:1-26 NASB

For thousands of years mankind has either twisted God’s word into a weapon of punishment according to mans sinful ideals or man has watered down God’s commandments to the place of this world having no reverence for, or fear of, God - we are to have fear of displeasing Him, fear grieving Holy Spirit, fear of Jesus sending us away from His presence!

We are each called by name yet in this crashing world not all will answer to the voice of the Lord…. My friend, brother sister - dad mom - daughter son….. repent, open the door to Jesus Christ and surrender all of it to Him, be saved, we are put of time time to the Heavenly Father will not turn away from the heart that cries out to Him, God’s just punishment is not to condemn His people but to return us into Christ’s likeness…. .

I understand that it is at times so very difficult to believe you can be redeemed, that you are worthy of Christs redemption, but you are loved, Holy Spirit is teaching you, strengthening you, guiding you, do not turn away from the glory of His majesty, yes Lord, we praise You king Jesus.

During Jesus Christ’s crucifixion, there were two other men suffering the same death, one to either side of Him. The one to Christ’s right has become known as the “Good Thief,” while the one to His left is referred to as the “Unrepentant Thief.” 

While both men were suffering the same gruesome execution and were both in the presence of Christ, their reactions to their situation are quite different.  The unrepentant thief rejects Our Lord and demands from Jesus, “save yourself and us”.   

But the good thief does not ask to be taken down. Instead he rebukes the other and proclaims Christ’s innocence, and in one of the most startling and beautiful moments of the Gospel, does not ask to be taken down from his sure and painful death. 

He asks, instead, to be taken up with Christ, asking “Jesus, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”

Jesus replies to the repenting thief saying, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”  

Hallelujah! Decide and then tell God that you receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. If You love Jesus Christ tell Him you love Him! He will welcome you.  It is your choice to declare openly that He is your Savior. 

This is the lesson of those with Jesus and the one, who accepted his cross, and placed his hope not in this world, but in the promise of the eternity in God’s kingdom. It is the story of a man who was saved in the eleventh hour. He was saved within a matter of minutes before dying. We must thank God, because as long as there is breath in our lungs there is the hope of salvation!