QT 14 Mar 18, Isa 40:1 & 3, Comfort is available to every person today if they would but humble themselves before God

Wk	Date	Passage	Key Verses(s) [Optional]	Basic Thing(s) Taught	Personal Insight(s) & Application(s)	Prayer Response
19	3/14	Isa 40:1-5	Isaiah 40:1,3 (ESV) — 1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.  … 3 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.	God promises to comfort his people. Verse 2 says that they have been paid for twice over. And then verse 3 prophesies John's ministry preceding the Messiah.	I wonder if the comfort and the "paid for-sin" is really Jesus. We really can't pay for our sins. Although I suppose the punishment for actions can be finite, the spiritual cost is infinite. But God comforts his people with the words, that a savior is coming. For us, the savior has already come. Comfort is available for all who will turn from their sins and confess Jesus as their savior. It sits out there awaiting all who will humble themselves.	Thank you Lord for the comfort I have in Jesus and his payment for all my sins, past, present, and future. I am so grateful and so comforted by that knowledge.