“Joyfully you’ll pull up buckets of water from the wells of salvation. And as you do it, you’ll say, “Give thanks to God. Call out his name. Ask him anything! Shout to the nations, tell them what he’s done, spread the news of his great reputation! Sing praise-songs to God. He’s done it all!””
Isaiah 12:4-5 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.
Can you sense the exuberance here? The sheer overflow of joy and utter delight? The imagery of pulling up buckets of water — one bucket after the other — from a well that never goes dry is the epitome of abundance, wouldn’t you say? When you sense the true impact of God’s provision for you, the realization is quite staggering, and you sometimes wish to do just that: give thanks, and proclaim His goodness.Â
I recently saw an episode of the popular television show, “Undercover Boss” and it wasn’t so much the amazement of the worker when her boss tells her he’s giving her $20,000, but the question that she asks him that completely blew me away. She asks, “But why?” Yes, why, what have I done, how can it be, could it be true, but why? These are the same questions that each of us might ask of God. But the answer — unlike the one offered on the show — is not because I am deserving or have been good, but because of God’s great love for me. Such unexpected generosity is not easy to comprehend; it is too mysterious for me. And yet, I am overwhelmed nonetheless, and have only gratitude and praise for so great a gift, and the least I can do is “Shout to the nations, tell them what he’s done!”
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