Zephaniah proclaims a word of hope. This trouble will come to an end. The Lord will rejoice over you with gladness, renew you in God's love. God will save the lame, gather the outcast, change their shame into praise and renown.
At that time, I will bring you home.
Walking through judgment into hope.
Experts tell us hope comes from hindsight. We have to have experienced something good in the past to understand something good can happen in the future. People who have no break, nothing good they can hang on to, no experience of succeeding, cannot experience hope.
Mary sings of God's mighty works in her song of praise...hindsight that brings hope.
Perhaps on this day, we look backward to see where God has been at work.
Then we look forward to see where we might give someone else a break, so they have hope in hindsight as well.
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