When we peer into the Bible what do we find? What is the Bible about anyways? Is it possible to summarize the Bible’s view of God in one sentence?

Isaiah 57:15 isn’t a bad place to look for such a sentence, albeit a tad long.

“For thus says the High and Lifted up, who dwells eternally, whose name is Holy,
‘The high and holy place I inhabit, and with the crushed and low-spirit,
to enliven the spirit of the lowly, and to enliven the heart of the crushed.’”

In his commentary on Isaiah, John Oswalt calls this verse “one of the finest one-sentence summations of biblical theology in the Bible.” Another commentator goes as far to say that the whole of the New Testament provides a running commentary on the theme of this verse (Isaiah, NICOT, ad loc). What then do we find in this verse?

An eternal and holy God who is high and lifted up but who also makes himself available to the lowly in order to make them alive again. How can such a thing happen? This passage screams “Jesus”!

In view of God’s mercy in reaching out to us can we not in turn reach out to others?