As we prepare for the Second Sunday of Advent, let me encourage you to read and mediate upon the second of Isaiah’s four ‘ Servant Songs’ found in Isaiah 49:1-13.

As you consider these words, the theme of redemption will become most evident. Here is the promise that the One who is called God’s “ Servant” will save His chosen people by means of the Father’s rich compassion and mercy! And not only will He restore captive Israel and bring them back to life as His people in His grace and mercy, He will also extend God’s gracious salvation to the ends of the earth itself!