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Sing! Be joyful!

Well, that needs to be qualified.

The mercy isn’t for just any afflicted — “for the Lord…will have mercy upon his afflicted.”

The Lord has comforted His people!

Is that about you?

The joy of the Lord is your strength. -Nehemiah 8:10

Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth with singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people and will have mercy upon his afflicted. -Isaiah 49:13

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. -Isaiah 12:2

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him. -Psalm 28:7

My soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. -Isaiah 61:10

I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. -Romans 15:17

We . . . joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. -Romans 5:11

I will joy in the God of my salvation. -Habakkuk 3:18

Daily Light on the Daily Path | August 14, Morning

You may be one of those of Jesus’ disciples who really needs God’s mercy in this way. And yet, it all seems so remote, so impossible, so out of touch with where you are right now.

I know.

So does God.

Yet He is speaking these things to you!

Read those verses again. Hang on to them. Write them out. Make them your hope and your prayer.

Do you really have anything better to do?

Do you really have a better hope?

I don’t either. Yet I forget. And doubt.

“My heart trusted in him, and I am helped” (Psalm 28:7).

God has shown us light -- Psalm 118:27
God has shown us light — Psalm 118:27

Endure it's darkness by the grace of He who will bring you forth to the light.

That’s how God punishes His child.

Oh, don’t get me wrong — it seems like a long time to the recipient of God’s correction. God’s moments seem like my eternities! But they are still mere moments in the sweeping scope of the everlasting.

How I forget that I deserve unending chastisement!

How I neglect to remember the everlasting kindness and great mercy that is my lot!

So let me not complain in the moment. Not only will it pass for the penitent, repentant heart, but the Lord is present in it.

When I am the one in the moment, this is all one huge, hard saying. If it is so to you now, may it also be a comfort and assurance to you.

By God’s grace, let us endure the darkness of our “moments,” believing that He will bring us forth to the light.

Now, here’s what I read that triggered that:

The Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion. -Lamentations 3:31,32

Fear thou not, . . . saith the Lord: for I am with thee; I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure. -Jeremiah 46:28

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. -Isaiah 54:7,8,10,11

I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness. -Micah 7:9

Daily Light on the Daily Path | August 12, Morning

“Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion”!