“True fasting” is a commitment of the heart to do God’s will, which enables us to share in the wonderful things God can do among us.

God brings about forgiveness and spiritual renewal within us as we turn to God in faith.

Isaiah invites us to “seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near,” with the assurance that as we do so we will experience God’s freely given blessing. Both Isaiah and Ezekiel use the image of abundant waters to speak of how God will answer the thirsting of our soul,

God raises people of out the depths of despair and out of death itself, and brings us into life.

“Beulah Land” is the land we have never seen but for which we long. It is the not yet realized bright future that God has in store for us. The term originally described the restored homeland to which God was bringing the exiles, but it describes far more the future we have in Christ. Isaiah

Although we may mess up in life, God never gives up on us. Though we may wander off from God, God keeps searching for us and cares for us like a shepherd. God persists, in spite of the world’s forgetfulness, to bring about God’s aims for good.