Isaiah 55:3

Isaiah 55:3. Incline your ear,

You know what that means; bend forward, to catch the faintest utterance of the voice that is speaking.

Isaiah 55:3. And come ‘unto me; hear, and your soul shall live;

We do not live by sight; all the pretty things that you can see in a Romish place of worship will not save a single soul. The preaching of the gospel is God’s way of salvation: "Hear, and your soul shall live." Christ rides into the City of Mansoul through Ear-gate. Take heed what ye hear, and take heed how ye hear.

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

Think of God making a covenant with you; this is a very wonderful thing. You may almost leap for joy at the thought that God should ever enter into covenant with you. You think very little of yourself, and reckon yourself to be amongst the most obscure of mankind; "yet," says the Lord God, "I will strike hands with you, and be your Friend, and pledge my word to you; ay, and make a covenant with you, and an everlasting covenant it shall be, too. Surely, blessing, I will bless thee." Oh, what a wonder of divine grace it is that God should enter into covenant with sinful man! "Even the sure mercies of David." You know what David this is; this is the Son of David, the inheritor of great David’s name, "great David’s greater Son."