Waiting on Christmas

You don't want to miss what God wants to say to you today in Isaiah 65:13-25! It's so encouraging to listen to him impress on me the promises he has made about the future he has in store for his servants! Give it a slow, thoughtful read. It's just 12 verses.

I'm creating new heavens and a new earth. All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past, to be forgotten. Look ahead with joy. Anticipate what Im creating. (v. 17-18 MSG)

Sometimes the sorrow and pain of this world feels so oppressive. It just weighs heavily on my heart like a load of bricks and my outlook turns bleak. But it is then that God speaks to me and shifts my focus to pan in on the future that is lingering on the horizon!

I can hardly stand to wait for this promise to be fulfilled! Things will not always be as they are now. The tide will turn. Darkness will give way to a brand new dawn, unspoiled and brilliant! The brokennes of this present earth will fall away and be replaced with the wholeness of the next. And this time it will remain whole. No more wars. No more animosity. No terrorist threats or email bombs. Just perfect harmony.

God, I long for you to bring in the new, eternal age where love, peace, joy, health, and goodness reign, where no one has to go without. Thank you that the healking we will experience in the new earth will be full and complete! I notice, God, that you don't want me to just try to endure until then, though. You want me to live to the fullest today, right here in the middle of the mess, with the joy of the thought of what's coming. You want me to sparkle with the giddiness of a child in Novemeber anticipating Christmas!

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