My Heart Rejoices in Your Salvation

Training for Today: Rest

Devotion: My Heart Rejoices in Your Salvation

Welcome to week 7! You can see that our theme for this week is about rejoicing in God’s promise of salvation. Can’t you feel the positivity building as we near the end of our journey? It’s amazing at this stage to look back at the somber focus of our early themes:


• How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
• How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?

And to think that the same psalmist wrote these questions just a few short verses before our theme for today: My heart rejoices in your salvation! I’m hoping that, as you’ve read the devotions and reflected on your grief, you’ve reached a place where you can honestly say to the Lord, “My heart rejoices in your salvation!” Here’s a fantastic, joyful image of what it means to rejoice in the Lord’s salvation:

“I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels” (Isaiah 61:10).

What an awesome image! Close your eyes and picture yourself being clothed by God in your garments of salvation. He’s stripped you of your sinfulness. He’s washed away every stain, scar, blemish, or imperfection in your heart. He’s clothed you as His bride! (No one has impeccable fashion sense like our amazing God!)

When you picture yourself being clothed with salvation this way, how can your heart help but rejoice? When you picture the people you’ve lost being clothed with salvation this way, how can your heart help but rejoice?

Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, I praise you for your wisdom, might, and power. I praise you for your glorious plan of salvation. I praise you for washing me clean and clothing me with your salvation. My heart rejoices in you! Amen.