NOTES for Isa 49:15

These tremendous words are written by the Second Isaiah (the unknown author of the second half of the book of the prophet Isaiah) in the context of the prediction on salvation, of which God will achieve in Christ. They are addressed to all and each, no matter what. How often we fall into despair and murmur, we are aggrieved against God, because it seems to us that He has abandoned us in cast loose. And the matter is not only the fact that we don’t notice His benefactions, we do not notice all His inestimable gifts: light and air, food and work, strengths of life and life itself. They are given to us of course, and we are insufficiently grateful as usual to God.

But we are in need of much more: of His compassion, His protection, of the fact that He delivers us from the somber perspective of death. That is why it is so important for us to know that God will never forget us, His memory and His compassion surpass even the maternal love, in other words - surpass all that we know in this world as love and memory. It is so magnificent, how sure becomes life, if repose trust in the truth of this God's promise. Even in the most terrible, in suffering and death there will be hope, if we believe in these words. This hope is particularly strong the day of Resurrection.