The road that is under construction, inspired by Isaiah 40, is both for God’s arrival in Christ, and for us in our getting ready to receive and follow Jesus Christ. We hear about repentance as a return to God, a second chance offered from God’s heart, which we begin with self-reflection and wanting to come back to our loving God. The repentance is our own road under construction, making us, our churches, and we hope, our society, more reflective of, and thus more receptive to, the reign of God which Christ brings to us on His own highway. Talking of equity in the world ends the sermon as an application to making the highway for God even, not uneven; lowering the hills and lifting up the valleys.