A required part of my Christmas routine includes Handel’s “Messiah”. Whether is actually attending a concert or sing along (preferred) or listening at home, it’s not Christmas for me without it. Last Christmas I discovered I don’t have a recording with me, but I did find a concert and it was wonderful. This year, Lisa sent me a recording and I’m going to the concert – I just have to be careful not to make it a sing along! Yes, the music is amazing and fun to sing, but every year I’m overwhelmed by some part of the text that applies directly to my life and what I need to be reminded of regarding my relationship with the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Yesterday I was listening to the CD while reading my devotions. At almost the same time, I was reading Isaiah 40 and it was being sung on the CD.
Isaiah 40:1-5 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. [2] Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. [3] The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. [4] Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: [5] And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Honestly, it made me long for heaven. Not a death wish, but an amazing hope and expectation of eternity with Jesus. Just think – the crooked made straight and the rough places plain! I find comfort in that in the ordinariness of today and draw on the promise when life seems very crooked and rough. It makes me want to sing!
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