4 Restore our fortunes, O Lord,
like the watercourses in the Negeb.
5 May those who sow in tears
reap with shouts of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
carrying their sheaves.
Prayer Focus: Joy is not only a present experience of Christian pilgrimage; it is an anticipated future. While we rejoice in the good gifts that the Lord provides, we also sow in tears; we weep in the midst of pain, loss, and trouble. But we also hope in the Lord. We hope that the Lord will provide the harvest. We hope that God will keep promises made to us in Jesus Christ. We hope for water flowing in the desert and harvests of abundance. Pray for hope and joy today.
“Joy is nurtured by anticipation. If the joy-producing acts of God are characteristic of our past as God’s people, they will also be characteristic of our future as God’s people. There is no reason to suppose that God will arbitrarily change his way of working with us. What we have known of God, we will know of God. Just as joy builds on the past, it borrows from the future. It expects certain things to happen.” Peterson, 93.
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