Psalm 126
Ben Loos
A memory of past laughter and a promise of a tearless future.
They are remembering the past of a deliverance and joy. They are using this for strength to have hope for the current situation.
When everything seems lost and hope has failed. That moment when unexpected good happens and there is nothing you can do, but laugh. Sheer joy and hope expressed.
The promise of the past is the promise of the future on the cusp of being fulfilled. Remembering the past to reshape the present and the future.
Our hope, through our tears, is that the desert will bloom and the barren will be made fruitful. God can work in an instant.
Often, however, only after the long winter or the never-ending drought, does God work in his time. Working through the labor and struggle of the faithful hand does God bless the harvest.
If we do not sow through the despair and the melancholy we often will not sow at all. Tears do not need to be the enemy, the preventer of our labors. Rather they can be the companion that waters the seeds as we sow them. The tears bring the growth and enable the harvest.
Though tears give growth, they will be traded for eternal life and laughter.
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