This reading from John Eldridge’s devotional book “Restoration Year” stopped me in my tracks. Especially the underlined question. What would I ask God to remove?
“Be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing and her people for gladness.” ISAIAH 65:18 NASB
No more tears. No more pain. No more death. No longer any reason to mourn. At the renewal of all things, your heart is going to be free from grief. The joy of this will far surpass your physical relief.
Think of it, if God would offer today to remove from you just one of your greatest sources of internal pain, what would you ask him to remove? And once it was gone, what would your joy be like?
Oh my goodness I would be a happy maniac, dancing in my underwear like David before the ark, running about the neighborhood like Scrooge on Christmas morning, leaping housetop to housetop like the fiddler on the roof.
And if all your brokenness were finally and completely healed, and all your sin removed from you as far as the east is from the west what will you no longer face?
What will you finally be? How about your loved ones what will they no longer wrestle with? What do they finally get to be?
You shall, finally and fully, be wholehearted a wish so deep in my soul I can hardly speak it.
Friend, there is so much healing available now. But our total restoration will take place at the return of Christ. What are you looking forward to at the renewal of all things? Journal a little about that.
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