Hi,
Redemption in Full!
Zephaniah 3:19 "Behold, at that time I will deal
with all your oppressors. And I will save the lame
and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame
into praiseand renown in all the earth".
Perhaps the greatest mystery of redemption is that it
can transform the memory of pain into joy so that we
are actually grateful for the things we have suffered.
It happens, even on earth, that a great saint like
Corrie Ten Boom could look back on her time in a Nazi
concentration camp and be grateful for how God blessed
her and many other people through
it. It happens, even on earth, that some awesome work
of beauty, glory or love spring precisely from the
wounds we have received, just as the grace of Christ
for the world springs from his bleeding hands and feet
and side. It happens, even on earth, that parents and
children, separated by some long bitterness, find
reconciliation in a way that fills them with gratitude
for the trial since it was the means by which they
came to a deeper love for one another than they would
otherwise have known. How much more then, in heaven,
will the saints in their full redeemed glory find that
their shame has been changed into praise?
Love n prayers,
Josachayan / Saudi Arabia
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