I admit that I listen to Christmas music throughout the year when I need a pick-me-up. These songs that point to Jesus with joy and adoration just do my heart good on hard days.
And this season seems hard. Not just a day. I’m weary. I would say that we all have times of weariness from the challenges and routines of life. But we are almost to 2022, and 2020’s mess is still here. Weariness abounds even in the midst of the most wonderful time of the year.
A weary world rejoices. A weary Mindy rejoices. Proclaim this with your name in it. No matter what is dragging our energy down, we can rejoice.
Fall on your knees. Hear the angel voices. Worship and awe. Jesus restores our joy and refreshes our soul when we focus on the love that came to rescue us.
As the weary psalmist wrote,
“Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation”
Psalm 42:5 ESV
Hope and praise. Jesus came to rescue us from sin and death. We have the hope of living forever in heaven with the light of the world! No more tears. No more pain. Just joy in his presence. My weariness just has to flee when exposed to the sonshine!
Let’s wrap up whatever is making us weary tonight. Set it beside the manger as we kneel in worship. We leave it there as we close our time with the Lord, living with the thrill of hope saturating our hearts.
