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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

Which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

His mercy is on them that fear Him. -Luke 1:50

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men! Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. -Psalm 31:19,20

If ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear. -1 Peter 1:17

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them. -Psalm 145:18,19

Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, . . . and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord. -2 Kings 22:19

To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. -Isaiah 66:2

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. -Psalm 34:18

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