WHY?
and those gathered by the Lord shall return and come to Zion with gladness, and with everlasting gladness over their head. For praise and exceeding joy will be on their head, and gladness shall possess them. Pain, sorrow, and sighing fled away.
Encouraging words
This past Sunday, I asked my high school class, "Why are you a Christian?" The response caught me off guard. The response was a room full of blank stares. So, lesson set aside, we dug into that question. My objective as a high school church school teacher is to engage these youth in a way that causes them to be independent thinkers who apply Gods' truth in everything that they do. They cannot make it through college and adult life with their parents' Christianity. It has to be their own. God does not have any grandchildren, only His own children. Needless to say, we will be continuing to dig into this, "Why?" question more. Isaiah gives us one of the many answers that we Christians can give when asked why we follow Jesus. Hope! Because of Jesus, we hope for that day when there will be no more pain, sorrow, or sighing in our lives. We believe that Jesus will bring us into His Kingdom, His Zion, and this will be the result, a place filled with gladness, everlasting gladness, filled with praise and exceeding joy, and yes, a place with no more pain, sorrow, and sighing. Come, Lord Jesus, come!
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