Please read the passage before reading the comments.
The servant of the Lord speaks here. Is the servant an individual or the people themselves? Whom does Isaiah have in mind?
Any and all servants of the Lord must know that it is God who teaches us how to teach and preach. It is God who opens our ears to hearing. It is God who is our help and who backs us up in times of trial.
Isaiah’s servant has known exile, but has remained faithful, even to listening to the word of the Lord in a foreign land far from home.
It is Jesus who nourished himself on God’s word and who finds himself alienated from society. It is Jesus who eventually finds himself saved from shame and exalted to God’s glory.
Again, it is we who are the servant, called to listen each morning the voice of God, called to be faithful. It is we who are saved from shame, whom God upholds. It is we who have succeeded to the work of Jesus in the world, we have followed in the tradition of Isaiah’s servant. It is we whom God upholds and whom God calls to remain faithful.
May the words of the reading today describe the reality that is in us.
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