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A Prayer Craving the Day of No More Sorrow and Sighing

     Those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. “I, even I, am he who comforts you.” Isa. 51:11-12

Dear heavenly Father, words cannot capture my gratitude for the hope these promises bring today. I very much believe your Word, but free me even more, from the unbelief which dogs and dulls my heart, at times.

As this day begins, I choose to remember I’ve already been ransomed, redeemed, purchased by Jesus for you. I was bought out of sin, condemnation, and death and brought into your eternal embrace. Thankfully, I’m no longer my own. I’m yours, and you love me because you love me . . . period.

All captivities—the ones I was born into and the ones I’ve brought upon myself; and those generated by evil and by others—all of them are broken in Jesus. No imprisonment, no bondage, no stronghold will keep me from arriving safely home in the New Jerusalem.

Lord Jesus, you are my Jubilee—my present and eternal year of the Lord’s favor. I will enjoy this freedom more fully when the new heaven and new earth arrives, but I am already fully and eternally accepted in you. The saints in heaven are more joyful than I am, but they’re not more secure.

What will it be like when we’re crowned with everlasting joy—the Day when all sorrow and sighing will flee away, and be gone forever? What will it sound like when my voice blends in with the entire family of God as we enter the New Jerusalem together?

I know what it feels like to be overtaken by guilt and shame, but what will it be like to be thoroughly overtaken by gladness and joy? Jesus, hasten that blessed, promised and craved Day.

Indeed, Jesus, even now, you comfort us like no one else. You comfort us in our heart of hearts—giving us so much more than better circumstances, less hassles and easier days. Forgive me for settling for mere relief when you’d give me more of yourself. So very Amen I pray, in your holy and loving name.

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