From Captivity to Joy: God’s Restoration and the Harvest of Rejoicing. Psalm 126 remembers a season when the LORD restored
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Jesus Christ.
John 1:17
Sandor Viczian
From Captivity to Joy: God’s Restoration and the Harvest of Rejoicing.
Psalm 126 remembers a season when the LORD restored His people so powerfully that it felt like a dream, turning sorrow into laughter and testimony before the nations. The psalm then becomes a prayer: as God has restored before, so He can restore again, even when the present feels dry and stalled. It teaches that true renewal is God’s work—He changes circumstances and hearts in ways no human effort can manufacture. Yet it also calls believers to faith-filled perseverance: sowing continues even with tears, because hope in the LORD is not fantasy but covenant trust. The chapter aims to anchor joy in God’s faithfulness and to strengthen endurance when obedience is costly and results are not immediate.
Psalms 126:1 – 126:6
1 A Song of degrees. When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
2 Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
3 The Lord hath done great things for us; [whereof] we are glad.
4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as the streams in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
6 He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves [with him].
STATEMENT OF FAITH
We Believe…
In one God, eternally existent in three persons – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit;
In the absolute deity and full humanity of our Lord Jesus Christ, God the Son, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His substitutionary and atoning death for all through His shed blood, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and His personal return in power and glory to judge the living and the dead;
In the present ministry of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling the Christian is empowered to live a holy life, to witness and work for the Lord Jesus Christ;
In the divine inspiration of all 66 books of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, guaranteeing their infallibility, entire trustworthiness, and supreme authority in all matters of faith and conduct;
That all people are sinners and cannot save themselves. Salvation is received as a free gift of God’s grace, apart from works, through repentance and personal faith in the redemptive work of Christ and the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit;
In the bodily resurrection of both the saved and the lost, the eternal blessedness of the saved, and the eternal punishment of the lost;
In the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ who are thus members of His Body, the Church, whose work is the worship of God, perfecting the saints, and evangelization of the world.
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