DELIGHT
A friend wrote this to me: “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 translates Amos 9:13: “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.’”
And Isaiah 43:19: “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it
shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the
wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”
These new blessings that God and the Lord Jesus have for
us are so new that 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 more 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.
Start writing down your delight list today 😊.
I think it’s going to be a long one!
Love, Carolyn
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