“The nations will put their hope in his name.” (v. 21)

This is the promise—out of Isaiah, through Matthew, about Jesus—that comforts us and compels us:

Jesus is hope for the nations.

All of them.

And, what’s better, some of all of them will indeed trust Him. Every nation and tribe and tongue is anticipated around God’s throne, in worship, forever.

Such is the comfort: Almost without exception, you and I are receiving this Gospel as the nations. American familiarity is not the same thing as Abraham’s biological family. This Good News had to flow from Israel to us by grace. The promise of nations trusting Him is the promise I am living into.

And such is the compulsion: There are literally thousands of people groups who have yet to hear of Jesus, and, without hearing, have not trusted Him by faith. Their hope is in a Gospel that yet needs to go to them. So we are compelled! We have heard, believed, and found hope. Now we go, so that they might, too.

Jesus is the hope of the nations. All of them. Let that comfort you. Let that compel you.

— Tyler