Isaiah 55:3

Isaiah 55:3. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; -

It seems a very little thing to do, does it not? Simply to hear, - to incline the ear; yet that is the way of salvation: "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Alas! nowadays, the mass of men will not hear God’s message of mercy; they pass it by as if it were an old worn-out tale of which they knew quite enough, Hear, then, what God says to his poor forgetful creature: "I tear, and your soul shall live;" -

Isaiah 55:3. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Will God make a covenant with man? Can it be that he will strike hands with sinful man, and enter into league and compact with him? Yes, so he says; if men will but incline their ear, and come unto him, he will enter into covenant with them: "I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David." "But David is dead," says someone. Yes, I know he is; but the David here meant always lives, it is Jesus, the Son of God.