Tonight I was down in my home parish of Banbridge at the Diocesan Ministry of Healing Celebration where there was testimony of people being healed, where people were prayed for, worship, lighting of candles, prayers of intercession and where Bishop Harold spoke about the wholeness of healing.
As a text he used Psalm 126 a psalm about the Israelites experience of desolation, of captivity, of brokenness.
Psalm 126 (New International Version)
Psalm 126
A song of ascents.
1 When the LORD brought back the captives to a]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[a] Zion,we were like men who dreamed. b]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[b]
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."
3 The LORD has done great things for us,
and we are filled with joy.
4 Restore our fortunes, c]" style="font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 0.5em; ">[c] O LORD,
like streams in the Negev.
5 Those who sow in tears
will reap with songs of joy.
6 He who goes out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with him.
Footnotes:
- Psalm 126:1 Or LORD restored the fortunes of
- Psalm 126:1 Or men restored to health
- Psalm 126:4 Or Bring back our captives
We see from this a few things
- God's desire for restoration, his over-arching plan to restore all things
- The reminder that there will be tears
- Incidentally +Harold spoke about the tears (there will be in ministry) over those whom we love who go their own way, those whom we minister to who do pass away, those for whom we pray and their illness continues.
- The reminder that those tears will be turned someday to joy
Concentrating on verse 5 - something which I hadn't really thought about before. There is a choice when we are sowing - we can look at the short term and those who are hungry can eat the seed now or in faith we can bury it in faith that it will produce a harvest sometime down the line. This is the message of the harvest.
Advent thought #2 ... as we prepare for Christmas - for whom do we have tears this day? are we prepared to sow so that sometime in the future we may reap with songs of Joy.
Who do we know that needs God's healing this day? are we prepared to surrender our prayers to God?
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