The prophet Isaiah describes the sweeping magnitude of Jehovah's saving work in the Messiah:
"It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to bring back the preserved of Israel; I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth." Isaiah 49:6
I have an impoverished mind when it comes to figuring out my God. The salvation I imagine is always "too light," too small.
I desire--and pray for--deliverance from stress, from mindless work, from disappointment; but God often says "it is too light a thing," and then He brings about weightier salvations: strength to my bones and soul; spirit-grown patience, love, and forgiveness. His plan is not accomplished in small, compensating handouts, but in an incomprehensible work bearing the prints of infinite Hands and part of a great glorifying salvation to the ends of the earth.
