Isaiah 12:3 The Song of the Redeemed
Next, we see a major shift in the song Isaiah is writing:
Therefore, with joy y’all will draw water
from the wells of salvation.
And y’all will say in that day:
Isaiah now speaks again in the narrator’s voice and addresses the people at large. The remnant. The community draws life from the salvation they have been given. Continuing the Leitmotif of the Exodus and rescue of God’s people from Egypt, he refers to the water from the well of salvation.
This is another theme that Jesus brings back in His teaching. (John 4:10-15; 7:37,38)
This Leitmotif is also picked up later in Isaiah. Earlier, we read the fourth Servant Song in Isaiah 52 and 53. That song is followed by two proclamations calling the nations to trust and follow the servant and receive salvation from God. Here is how the second of these starts out in chapter 55:
1 “Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
We do not receive salvation at our conversion and are then finished. When we emerge from the baptismal waters, we return to the well of salvation all the time. Our salvation is an ongoing, daily act of God. Not as though we are saved again each day; but in the sense that we live and thrive in our connection to the salvation that God has graced us with.
Therefore, with joy y’all will draw water
from the wells of salvation.
And y’all will say in that day:
Isaiah now speaks again in the narrator’s voice and addresses the people at large. The remnant. The community draws life from the salvation they have been given. Continuing the Leitmotif of the Exodus and rescue of God’s people from Egypt, he refers to the water from the well of salvation.
This is another theme that Jesus brings back in His teaching. (John 4:10-15; 7:37,38)
This Leitmotif is also picked up later in Isaiah. Earlier, we read the fourth Servant Song in Isaiah 52 and 53. That song is followed by two proclamations calling the nations to trust and follow the servant and receive salvation from God. Here is how the second of these starts out in chapter 55:
1 “Come, everyone who thirsts,
come to the waters;
and he who has no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread,
and your labor for that which does not satisfy?
Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.
We do not receive salvation at our conversion and are then finished. When we emerge from the baptismal waters, we return to the well of salvation all the time. Our salvation is an ongoing, daily act of God. Not as though we are saved again each day; but in the sense that we live and thrive in our connection to the salvation that God has graced us with.
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