And the ransomed of the LORD will return. They will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness and joy will over take them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. Isaiah 35:10
God’s creative power is also His saving power. Chapter 35 is a poem telling of the end of time as we know it and the beginning of total and complete freedom from sin and grief. This passage speaks of old things becoming new, dead things coming to life. Such is our state when we are saved by grace.
Ransom, the noun, is the price demanded for return of a possession. Ransom, the verb, is the act of rescuing and redeeming. God does both. The price to pay for everlasting life is a sacrifice that can face down death and LIVE to tell about it. Jesus did. Nothing in Satan’s arsenal had the strength to pull God and His Son from their objective, to save mankind from eternal darkness and death.
Man has no reference point to an existence without sorrow, temptation or fear. Isaiah saw it! God sent word to a people in bondage. There will come a day when suffering will end. God is at work, THE BEST IS YET TO COME!
Happy Monday,
Gretchen