The day that Isaiah is referring to is the day when God wipes away all fear and removes all disgrace. That happened on the cross. Death was conquered and sin was forgiven. Disgrace was replaced with grace. When we repent and trust in Him, we receive this gift of salvation. It should bring gladness and rejoicing. We do tend to dwell on the lesser things in this life. We are too consumed by worry, trouble, issues and drama; a veritable feeding frenzy on everything wrong, negative and discouraging. Hope has to work real hard to compete with hopelessness. Why is that? I think if we can invent, promote, and feed problems, then we can talk about and sell solutions outside of Christ and His word and salvation. See, those things are free, not a lot of need to be met when He meets all our needs. There is a commerce of trouble and problems and worry and fear. When we trust God, we aren’t as needy. The world needs to keep us needy and dependant. The world, in effect, creates problems to solve. So we find simple things like rejoicing, gladness, trusting God and salvation difficult to focus on and celebrate and even harder to promote. Let us often speak of His free gift that is the answer, instead of being played by a world that needs us to have problems. Surely this is what our God desires for us.
In Him,Pastor Fred
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