THE JOYFUL WITNESS

Do you know what God wants to do for us as we sleep tonight? He wants to make us beautiful...to bring the inner radiance which He has placed within us to the surface. As one man put it, “God desires to love forth our beauty”...the beauty that was created in His image. Right now, Christ is preparing His bride! He is restoring "The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD." (Jeremiah 33:11kjv) He is getting ready to come back for His beloved, but before He does, one thing must occur. Each one of us will soon be so filled with Him...so overflowing with joy and love that a new kind of “witnessing” will start to take place. This will not just involve preaching to people, leaving tracts on their windshields or asking them, “Do you know Jesus?” It will mean radiating the real thing, Christ Himself, through the new beauty and new song He is working in each of us in our daily lives. As the Psalmist David proclaimed, "Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee." (Psalm 51:8, 12-13, KJV). What a powerful force joy is! To think that through it God will use us to teach and convert sinners is an incredible truth. Surrender to the beauty and joy He wants to work in us now... even as we sleep.