LifeLink Devotions

Friday, July 21, 2023

Times like these in which we live can easily bring discouragement and get us down. We can become overwhelmed with the details of life to the point of sighing. Imagine how much worse it could get as the Day of the Lord approaches.

Yet our verse for today brings us such assurance and hope.

Isaiah 35:10  “They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

There is a day coming when we who know Christ will enter the house of the Lord with singing. And because of that guaranteed outcome, I can enter my own house every day with singing. I can leave my house every day with joy crowning my head. I can invest in work, recreation, and relationships with gladness.

We can live in that context of joy and gladness because of he promise of God – the ransomed of the Lord will return with singing.

We sing because of the everlasting joy of our salvation.

We are glad because the sufferings of this day are not worthy to be compared with the glory that will be revealed in us when Jesus returns.

We rejoice in the midst of our present sufferings because we know that this too shall pass and there is a day coming when all suffering and sorrow and sadness and sighing will be gone.

So today, we make the choice to let our attitudes be dominated by the promises of God, not the circumstances of the present. Today we will rejoice and enter the day with singing.

Pastor John