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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Psalms 126: 1-6 NIV
V-1) When the Lord brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed.
Look at the word “Captive”. Many of us have been captive. You say captive to what? We are Captive to small thinking. We can be captive to fear. One can become captive when they lose their vision for what God has created them for. God has created each of us with special gifts, special talents and when we don’t use those gifts we are captive. It is an insult to God, who created us, and gave them to us. Have you ever given a gift that you thought was special and that person never used it? They just through it in the drawer or gave it away. That’s what God must feel; God sees what he created for us, lying dormant.
When captives are brought back to Zion, to God, and his church, “we become like men who dream”. Life is living, when we dream. We dream of climbing the highest mountain, dream of sailing around the world, dream of holding an Olympic gold medal, a solider coming home without legs is dreaming he will one day walk again, a broken family dreams of coming together again. To live we MUST dream.
V-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”
When we dream our lives become full of laughter our tongue’s with songs of joy. How true that is. Thirty years ago my wife and I were broke. We had friends who would come over and leave boxes of groceries on our door step. They would ring the doorbell then run and hide. We licked up every bit of them and gave thanks to the Lord for their generosity. Even though we had no money, only a vision, a dream, we had laughter upon laughter. Some people thought our dreams were crazy but they were our dreams. God gives people dreams and without them people become captive.
V-3) The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.
It should be said of all of us though our communities “the Lord had done great things for them.”
V-4) Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negev.
What fortunes would we be asking God to restore? Could it be the fortunes of dreams, laughter, and joy that were lost while in captivity?
V-5) Those who sow in tear will reap with songs of joy.
Most of us don’t get thought this life without some troubles, disappointments, discouragement, and the loss of something close to our hearts. We may lose our dream for a while but if we keep on sowing and trust in the Lord, even as the tears flow down our cheeks in times of sorrow we will reap that which you sow. The Lord will bring the captive back.
V-6) He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.
When we go out caring our dream seed to sow we will return with songs of joy, carrying a fulfillment of those dreams (sheaves) with us. There is a time of harvest, and in the harvest one always receives, many times that which he sows.
There will be no harvest until there is a dream of what can be done.
With the Christmas Season upon us and a New Year approaching, may the Lord stir up our dreams and visions that he has given us, and fill our hearts with joy and laughter in this year to come. May the Lord, continue his blessing upon you and your loved ones.
Merry Christmas and a joyous 2011
Darold Larson- Chaplain
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