070. Isaiah’s Thanksgiving.

Isaiah’s Thanksgiving.

Isaiah’s Song of Thanksgiving, as recorded.—Isaiah 12:1-6.

We might almost call Isaiah’s thanksgiving a song of praise; it is closely connected with the prophecy in the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, and predicts that the converted nation of Israel, reflecting on their sufferings, the expression of God’s anger for their rejection of the Messiah, will, when this wrath is taken from them, break out in the strains of the prophet. The deliverance of Israel was a shadow of the deliverance of the Church from the galling yoke of Satan. The effects of the Holy Spirit are often beautifully shadowed forth by the emblem of clear and springing water, purifying and fertilizing whatever it flows upon; so the Spirit, when he enters the heart, changes its vile nature, washes away its stains of guilt and sin. This figure alludes to a custom among the Jews. On the last day of their feast of tabernacles, water was brought from the fountain of Siloah, at the side of Mount Zion, and after being mixed with wine, was poured upon the sacrifice as it lay upon the altar. Ho, every one that thirsteth, come draw from the fountain of living water; come with faith and prayer, and our souls will be satisfied, and one and all make this the song of our thanksgiving, till we rest on the bank of that river which flows by the throne of the Eternal.