Daily Affirmations - Day 6 - Good Tidings of Great Joy - Comfort and Oil

Alisa B.
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Day 6: Comfort and oil

Our Messiah Lord heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion—to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.

They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor (Isaiah 61:1-3).

The Divine Messiah comes to usher in the true jubilee— the blessed day in which the poor shall have the gospel preached unto them, and in which the broken-hearted shall find their brokenness healed.

He comes to bring the captive ones back from the Babylon of sin, and to deliver from prison those who, because of their transgressions, are bound with fetters; in a word, He comes to proclaim that now is the accepted time, now is the day of grace, now is the year of jubilee.

As for the adversaries of His people, unto them it shall be “the day of vengeance of our God,” for the Lord will deal out to them, measure for measure, as they have dealt unto His oppressed and persecuted people.

For ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He might be glorified.

When Jesus comes, He brings all things with Him, for He is all things to His people, and they find their all in Him. There is no sorrow at His coming to those who receive Him; it is gladness, gladness repeated, and gladness multiplied.

Not only doth joy come in one form, but in many, as [these] verses... so sweetly remind us, and that which comes is permanent, making those that receive it to be like long-standing trees, for they shall outlive their sorrows, and prove that they were planted of God for His own glory.

~ Spurgeon's Verse Exposition of the Bible (edited slightly for punctuation and clarity).

Salvation’s free, glad joy to all

Of Adam’s fallen race;

We’ll tell to all both far and near

Of saving, keeping grace.

Refrain:

There’s joy, glad joy,

Now flowing from above;

There’s joy, glad joy

In the fullness of His love.

From wells of everlasting joy

Our strength by faith we bring;