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This verse is taken from:
Isaiah 62. 10-12
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“search the scriptures” John 5:39
The fullness of what it means to be saved will be seen at the Messiah’s visible return to earth. It is common to hear truncated, small thoughts about salvation. But the Bible labours to impress upon us the immensity of this word - salvation. The Lord alone is the Saviour. There is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved. Salvation is such that only God can accomplish it.
Moreover, salvation is not an impersonal quantity or substance that God dispenses, like money or land. Salvation is spoken of as a Person. We see this by this title. Salvation is only communicated to us in Himself. Only as we come into contact with Christ by faith do we receive our Salvation. Too often in trying to communicate the facts of salvation we leave our hearers with a checklist of items to believe, or commands to obey, and we lose sight of the Person who Himself is the believer’s salvation.
Isaiah the prophet did not make this mistake: ‘The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; And all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God … Behold, my servant’, Isa. 52.10,13.
Notice the extent of this salvation. It is proclaimed to Israel’s neighbours, and to the ends of the world. God has taken up Zion’s injured and despised cause. By saying: ‘Behold, thy salvation cometh’, Isaiah announces a Saviour who brings such a reward that all observers shall stand admiring. When the Saviour is finished not only will God see that Israel is a holy people, and the redeemed of the Lord, but all onlookers shall call them a holy people. And long neglected Jerusalem shall then be called, ‘Sought out, a city not forsaken’, Isa. 62.12.
What Israel shall see, each individual believer sees on a personal basis now. As Simeon said: ‘Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word: for mine eyes have seen thy salvation, which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel’, Luke 2. 29-32.
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