City Church Houston

When you think of justice, what comes to mind? This passage is not only addressing particular systems of injustice or internal comfort during seasons of suffering (though it does that), it is also a positive vision of culture itself. God designed the world to be intertwined. All of the systems and people of the world are part of the beautiful tapestry he creates. In Isaiah’s world, it is as though the tapestry is frayed. But from the vantage point he can see from God’s vantage point, Isaiah can see a vision of flourishing—a reweaving together of God’s world so the world can again picture the world as God designed it. Jesus is the solution to injustice to the world. He could have solved it by himself, but instead God designed it to be collaborative. He uses us as the means to reweave the fabric that is unraveled. Jesus was the perfectly just one, but he was treated as one who was unjust, the greatest metaphysical injustice of all time. Through this, we are given ultimate beauty instead of ashes.