DELIGHT
My best friend Jane wrote
this in a recent letter: “The Bible
says that for everything there is a season. There have been so many seasons
in my life and they have bridged the gamut from absolute disaster to
delight beyond my wildest expectations. But in this season, right now, I am
beginning to experience the harvester and the sower passing each other. My
prayer requests and heart's desires are beginning to run and chase me down.
This is so new the baby is still crowning on the way out.”
As it says in Amos 9:13: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that the plowman
shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed; and
the mountains shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt [that is,
everything heretofore barren and unfruitful shall overflow with spiritual
blessing] [AMP].”
This is what God
spoke to the Israelites after they’d spent a long time in captivity and
struggle. They yearned for deliverance and the blessings they’d once known. I
think we all go through times when we yearn for better times, without so many
struggles, a purer time of happy days and more delight.
The Message Bible
puts it this way: “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now. God’s Decree. Things
are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of
the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at
once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the
mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people: They’ll
rebuild their ruined cities. They’ll plant vineyards and drink good wine.
They’ll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables. And I’ll plant them, plant them on their own land. They’ll
never again be uprooted from the land I’ve given them. God, your God, says so.”
That’s exciting
and I believe that’s what’s happening now for God’s people around the world. We
can expect restoration. “And I
will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten. And ye shall eat in
plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the Lord your God, that hath dealt
wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed” (Joel 2:25-26).
And new things: Isaiah 48: 6-7
says: “From this time forth I announce to you new things, hidden things that
you have not known. They are created now, not long ago; before today you have
never heard of them, lest you should say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’”
These new blessings that God and
the Lord Jesus have for us are so new we won’t be able to attribute them to
anything but the sheer magnitude of God’s love for us. We are going to start
getting some prayers answered and new blessings before we even get the requests
out of our mouths. I’ve started to see it happen, so I expect it to spread.
Get your delight list out. I think
it’s going to be a long one!
Love, Carolyn
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