Isaiah was God’s poet. When you slow down and focus on the formidable beauty of Isaiah’s lines, they’re rivers of honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Hear the heart of God for redeeming people:

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. 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. Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David (Isaiah 55:1-3, ESV).

What do you see here? Several things are overt; they leap off the page:

• God’s seeking all who will come/His invitation
• What’s needed is not stuff but simple repentance and faith in God
• God’s delight in providing lavish blessings upon His people
• God’s unending covenant/faithfulness

Again and again, God seeks sinners who will forsake their folly and flee to His good news. And it hinges upon God’s grace, God’s covenant faithfulness, and God’s love for repentant people.