In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Isaiah 40:3
Take away Jesus Christ and you have no payment. Take away the payment and you have no pardon. Take away the pardon and you have no peace! All this good and all this comfort hangs on this unique person, Jesus Christ, who is unlike any other person born into the world.
Great people have advance parties to prepare the way for their visit. Prepare the way for the President of the United States or for the Queen. Look who is coming: “Prepare the way of the LORD” (four capital letters). God himself is coming into his world!
Here is something that had never happened before, and it has never happened since. Isaiah said it would happen, and in the birth of Jesus Christ it has! What will happen when he comes?
“Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low…” (40:4). Think how this is fulfilled in Jesus himself—he comes down from the heights of all that it means to be God. He leaves the glory of heaven and humbles himself, taking the form of a servant. At the same time, he takes our humanity to himself and lifts it up.
Jesus Christ has made the payment. He has secured the pardon. He has established the peace. All of this can be yours in him.
Are you experiencing the freedom from guilt and condemnation that Jesus came to bring? If not, ask God to prepare a way for him to come and visit you.
