When the LORD brought back the captives to Zion, we were like men who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
The LORD has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy. Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like streams in the Negev. Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.
Psalm 126
The LORD has done great things for me.
The Captivity
Like many of the Israelites experienced throughout time, I also was born in captivity. Not physically, but under another kind of captivity that was so hard to put my finger on. Everyone told me that I was free in Christ. That my sins were atoned for and I was going straight to heaven.
Even so, I used to lie awake in the darkness of my room, wondering why there was a church on every street corner of my city but God was nowhere to be found. I began to question–is there even a God watching over us? I hoped so. And if so, what was I supposed to be doing? A sort of existential crisis from beneath my covers.
As I grew up and saw the corruption of Christianity, and later, as I started to study the Bible itself, I realized that I had been subject to the greatest deception. All my misunderstandings and ignorance of the Bible was the jail I had been locked in, and it was the devil who had made us believe that’s what freedom looks like. Freedom to be blissfully ignorant.
The Lord Has Done Great Things – He Has Freed Me
When the door of my jail opened and a light shined in, of course it was scary to follow it out of the place I had been born into and lived all my life. But I trusted in God and His promise, like the captives coming back to Zion. He rescued me by teaching me His words in the Bible. Truth really does set you free.
God hasn’t ‘done great things for me’ in the sense that I have an easy, worry-free, everything-I-could-ever-want life. Instead, He gave me a new life. Away from lies, misunderstanding, and ignorance about Him. And He gave me a promise: that whenever I go on another rescue mission to pull someone else out of the prison of misunderstanding and lies the devil has told, though difficult with tears streaming down, I will return with success and songs of joy.
The Lord has done great things indeed.
Written by Samantha
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