Isaiah 61:8-11 – Are we sowing seeds of salvation and righteousness?

God is just and He loves justice. He has a strong dislike for unfairness. Here we sense the reference to God’s people being treated unfairly while in exile. Being a just God, He would not allow the injustice to prevail without aligning it. For that purpose, He established an everlasting covenant with His people to faithfully compensate them for all that they had to endure. Those covenant people will be known as God’s people. They and their offspring would be recognized, and nations would come to recognize that they were indeed God’s blessed people.

Recognizing the Lord’s hand in their lives, the people whom He has so wonderfully blessed will greatly rejoice and exult in Him. For He has ensured their salvation and clothe them with a robe of righteousness. Using the imagery of a bridegroom and bride that would be adorned with the wedding garland and garment, Isaiah saw how God would bless His people. They would not only experience His salvation but would also be clothed with His righteousness. Then praises and righteousness would blossom and abound like new plants sprouting forth before the nations.

Through the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the everlasting covenant, God has raised a new community of people for His glory. These covenant people will receive salvation and be imputed with His righteousness. They shall be known as the Lord’s blessed people. What is more wonderful is that Isaiah foresaw that there will be many who will join this band of blessed people, like mushrooming new plants. This is the sure work of God. The church, which we are all a part of, is called to proliferate the message of the everlasting covenant in Christ. As we do, we shall see people saved and birthed into the family of God all over the world. We are called to sow the seed of the Gospel to impact the lives of people. What are we doing about this call? Let us take time to sow the seed of the Gospel. In the four kinds of ground in the Parable of the Sower, we calculate that at least 25 percent would be good ground. When seeds of the Gospel fall on the 25% of good ground,  we are guaranteed of at least thirty or sixtyfold, if not a hundredfold. Let us get to work and expand the Kingdom!