Fellow Christians, let us reassure ourselves that we participate in the exultation of a people who are no longer accursed. We may face many trials – we may even suffer profoundly in this life. But we are no longer languishing in darkness. We are a people whose Savior has come. The light of the world has undone our curse, enabling us to live in relationship with himself. As a result, we experience the blessing of Christ’s righteous rule in our hearts. And a day is coming, soon enough, when every last vestige of the curse will be banished, and we will see King Jesus face to face. Now we hope in what we cannot see, but on that day we will see.
Scriptures to consider:
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwell in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shown. Is. 9:2
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us – for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’ – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith. Galatians 3:13-14
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. Luke 1:31-33
And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. Ez. 36:26
Hymn to enjoy:
Joy to the world; the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King:
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing.
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground:
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.
Words by Isaac Watts (1719); tune by George Frideric Handel (1742)
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