Waiting's End
4/30/26 Bible Thought (Isaiah 25)
Main Idea: There is coming a day of blessing when faith will be made sight.
A Look at the Text:
Today’s chapter continues the look at a future time that is the focus of chapters 24 through 27 of Isaiah. Yesterday’s text addressed judgment, whereas today’s forecasts salvation. We now see a greater picture of what the King’s reign will look like.
He will be a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat (Isa. 25:4). Contrasting the desolation of chapter 24, there will be a feast (Isa. 25:6). Even more, death itself will be swallowed up forever, and God will wipe every tear away (Isa. 25:8). It is a day when faith will be made sight. The people on that day will cry out:
“Behold, this is our God; we have waited for him, that he might save us. This is the Lord; we have waited for him; let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation” (Isa. 25:9).
While there is a day of desolation coming for those who reject Him, the end of the story is entirely different for those who are His.
Bringing it Home:
While the previous chapter illustrated so vividly the terrors of those who are subjected to His wrath, this chapter presents the picture of a God who is a refuge to His people. As one scholar concluded in a summary of Psalm 2, “There is no refuge from Him, only in Him.”
The Scripture, in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, gives us previews of that final day. It is a time when faith will finally be made sight. The believer will be able to point to their God, saying, “This, this is the One whom we have waited for! Here He is! He has come!”
No longer will it be a future hope.
No longer will it merely be imagined.
No longer will we wait by faith, but it will be our experience.
While the present can be fraught with disappointment and difficulty, we cannot lose sight of the sure hope that we have that is yet to come.
Every tear will be wiped away.
Our God will have come, finally.
Challenge:
Have I ever considered that faith is a temporary installment?
Presently, we walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). Yet on that future day, there won’t be a need for faith, for we will behold the One who has been our hope.