Too often it happens that we develop wrong ideas about God, especially when we talk about "the will of God". We often make God look like a great administrator, making sure that certain plans are brought into effect, or else like a great accountant, evaluating the outcome of the success or failure of those plans.

One of Isaiah's great talents was the ability to suggest images of God very different from those generally held his contemporaries. Thus today, against the notion that God's word is very imperative, authoritative, impelling and demanding, Isaiah suggests that God's word is actually as gentle and nourishing as the dew. It comes as imperceptibly as the dew comes. Thus, too, Jesus, the Word made flesh, was born and lived in obscurity and so only those with the heart of a child could see God and his Kingdom in him.

God's word is certainly purposeful so it will always "achieve the end for which I sent it". God's first words in the Bible were creative words, words of sharing and delight, and these creative words give us the real model for understanding God's words.