With Songs and Full Arms

Psalm 126

Those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy. Those who go out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with them.

Was 2014 full of sorrowful tears?  God saw every one of them as they fell.

But this verse brings us hope of joy, after the tears fall, after the weeping is over, just like there is a harvest after planting is completed.

Have you ever thought of your tears as being seeds that fall, seeds that then shoot up with new life, so much that you cannot contain or carry all that the return yields?

There is great promise for the year 2015.  If tears have fallen, there is joy ahead.

If you are still weeping, begin to look around you and see what’s growing in place of the sorrow.  Ask God to fill you with his songs of joy as you begin a new year.

And when your arms are too full of his blessings and you can barely carry them, scatter them around to those you know who are still sorrowful and in tears.

Songs of joy for 2015 – listen for them – and sing them.