The Miracle in Your Life

Good Morning,

Isaiah 12:1-6 (NIV)
In that day you will say:
"I will praise you, O LORD.
Although you were angry with me,
your anger has turned away
and you have comforted me.
Surely God is my salvation;
I will trust and not be afraid.
The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song;
he has become my salvation."
With joy you will draw water
from the wells of salvation.
In that day you will say:
"Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name;
make known among the nations what he has done,
and proclaim that his name is exalted.
Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things;
let this be known to all the world.
Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion,
for great is the Holy One of Israel among you."

I want you to do something today. I'd like you to think about that moment when you accepted Jesus Christ into your life as Lord and Savior, and then think about the time shortly thereafter. For those of us who don't really remember that moment of salvation because, perhaps, we were too young, I'd like you to think about the time, even the moment, that you realized that Jesus is your Lord and your Savior...and, also, think about your life in the days, weeks, and months that followed.

Now, read again these verses which are a song of joy to God concerning that day, that time of your life, when salvation became a reality and your life was changed. When my mind goes back and I think of my life, I see much of what I read today in this section of Isaiah.

What I'm asking today is that we all reflect on a time of our lives when God was so real and important. Have some of us...even many of us...changed since that time and those days? I would say yes to that, at least for myself. We become a bit complacent about our salvation over time, I'm afraid. We take for granted what we felt in the beginning was so marvelous, joyous, and life changing. We sort of forget the feelings we had then.

As our minds became filled with more and more knowledge about "religion" and we got somewhat distracted by the details of what this verse and that verse might mean in our lives, well, we just kind of lost the true joy we had and the wonder of what God did in our lives. While that knowledge is good, of course, and we ought to learn as much as we can, something we cannot do is to let the knowledge of the details replace the miracle in our lives of God's love and His gift of eternal life for us. Let's not lose sight of the forest in front of us because of the trees that might begin to hide it.

Today, I want all of us, me included and maybe most of all, to read these verses and do all we can to remember what we were before we grasped the meaning of our own personal salvation, and then to recall the time that shortly followed. I want us to try to recapture the wonder of God's miracle in our lives.

What I want, for you and for me, is to feel that true joy again.

Love, peace, and blessings,

David