Psalm 126
Sometimes good news is so good it is hard to believe when we first hear it. The diagnosis is late-stage cancer, but the retest indicates perfect health. We expect a foreclosure notice and receive notice that we won a million dollars in a sweepstakes. We live in exile captivity, and the emperor sets us free. We finally grasped that by our sin we deserve wrath and Hell, but by grace we are saved.
There needs to be a place in our lives to marvel at the spectacular wonder that we deserve Hell and are given Heaven. Think about it long enough, and it will seem too good to be true until we recall again the greatness of God. Praise Him!
Verse 4 is an interesting point. There were still those in Babylon who had not yet acted upon the declaration of liberty. The psalmist prays that the Lord restore them like a wadi. A wadi is a dry stream bed that after a rain suddenly becomes a flash flood torrent of water. The psalmist asks God for a flash flood of exiles to return. Do we pray for a flash flood of loss to come to the saving knowledge of God's grace?
“Thank you, God, for the best news ever. Bring others into the knowledge of this gospel news. AMEN.”
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