Charles Spurgeon Commentary Isaiah 40:3

"The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God." — Isaiah 40:3 (ASV)

The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

You know this was John the Baptist coming to proclaim the Savior. That was the best comfort God's people could have – the coming of the Lord. So it is now. The joy of the Church is the coming of the Lord, and to each one of us the greatest source of joy is the drawing near of our Lord to us. If he appears to us, our winter is over, our summer's sun has come. If Christ is with us, the time of the singing of birds has come, and our heart is glad.

The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

You do not have to turn the wilderness into a garden; you only have to make a highway for our God. It is the presence of God that you want, O sorrowing soul, O mourning Church! Let the Lord only come to you, and then all shall be well. Your task is to heed the cry, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.