3567 — God's Comfort to His People
Just what is meant—God's comfort to His people. The prophet was to speak to Jerusalem, tell her that her warfare is accomplished, her iniquity is pardoned. God had furnished all that was needed to restore her to her exalted position before Him. She had received pardon covering all her sin, doubled to her for assurance; and the comfort which He sends her is the great consolation of having a God who is high and holy, exalted and great above all conception, so much so that the world is counted as "the small dust of the balance," as nothing and "less than nothing" in His sight; yet that same God gives power to the faint, and to them that have no might He increases strength. That mighty power of God is used to strengthen the weak among His people. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." This is God's comfort to His children.