Psalm 118: 27-29: “The LORD is God, and he has made his light shine upon us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will give you thanks; you are my God, and I will exalt you. Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.”
What a beautiful way to end a difficult month. Our LORD is God. Christ Jesus has made His light shine upon us. The world around us can be a dark, scary place but our citizenship is not in the darkness, it is in the light. “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.” [2 Corinthians 4:6]
And if that doesn’t make your heart leap for joy, let Colossians 1:14 remind you that “He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”
In Idaho, our Governor is allowing churches to open their doors after May 1 in the first step of starting up our economy. I am so pleased that on May 10, we will have our first indoor church service. (Granted there are restrictions about social distancing and masks, etc.)
For many, the opening of our economy again is as if the “light” is finally breaking through our current darkness. While that may be true from the world’s perspective, in God’s perspective we broke through into the light the moment we surrendered our lives to Jesus as Savior and LORD. He took us out of the dark scary place we were in and translated us into the kingdom of His Dear Son – a kingdom of light and love and forgiveness and redemption.
What a joy Psalm 118 has been to my heart. I pray it has been to yours also. “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.” Amen & Amen.
