“Comfort, yes, comfort My people!" Says your God. "Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her, That her warfare is ended, That her iniquity is pardoned; For she has received from the LORD's hand Double for all her sins.” Isaiah 40:1-2

Isaiah’s words are about Jesus, the Messiah.

There is no comfort like the comfort Jesus gives His people. In fact apart from Jesus, there is no real comfort.

The comfort Jesus gives, He gives exclusively to His people.

The comfort we receive from Jesus comes from His Word. As He spoke and the universe appeared, He speaks comfort to His people.

The comfort the Lord gives is based on His having ended our warfare with sin. We still fight many battles, but He has won the war on behalf of those He came to save!

The source of the comfort Jesus gives His people is that our sins are forgiven—completely, forever, and irrevocably!

The grace by which we have received the Lord’s comfort is twice as good as we thought our sins were, and His grace is twice as wonderful as His wrath that we deserved—and that wrath was infinite!

What a comfort our Savior is!