Spoken

 He will swallow up death forever;

and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces,

and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth,

for the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 25:8


Death is the great enemy of mankind. It destroys our hopes and dreams. But the Lord will swallow up death forever. He's begun the process already. Christ has already defeated death by rising from the tomb. All who are in him will defeat death too.


He will wipe every tear from our eyes. Beyond death and the return of Christ, perhaps the only tears in glory will be tears of joy. But the Lord will wipe them away, along with any sadness and regret we might have.


The Lord will take away the reproach of his people. We are reproached for all kinds of reasons by all kinds of people. Muslims call us blasphemers, secularists call us bigoted. We get ridiculed and reviled. Some of us in some parts of the world even face imprisonment,  torture and death for our faith. But the Lord will remove all that persecution from us.


How can we be sure that this will happen? Because the Lord has spoken. When the Lord speaks, things happen. His words have power. By his word the heavens and earth were created. By his word miracles happen and lives are transformed.


"Lord God, thank you that you will swallow up death forever. Thank you that you will wipe the tears from our eyes. I praise you that you will take away our reproach. I glorify your name, the one who keeps his word, amen"


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