How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 52:7

Thought

The reign of God is not just a future event for which we simply wait. (Sandie Cornish)

1. Joy to the world, the Lord is come
Let Earth receive her King
Let every heart
Prepare Him room
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven and nature sing
And heaven, and heaven,
And nature sing

2. Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns
Let all their songs employ
While fields and floods,
Rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat the sounding joy
Repeat, repeat,
The sounding joy

3. No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make
His blessings flow.
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found
Far as, far as,
The curse is found

4. He rules the world with truth and grace
And makes the nations prove
The glories of
His righteousness
And wonders of His love
And wonders of His love
And wonders, wonders,
Of His love

Prayer

To the One Who reigns forever, I sing with joy this hour, for Your rule is not a distant dream to those who now await You. It is a thing that we can know in the here and now. Therefore, let me never lose sight of it as I follow You in faith. Amen

Daily Readings

Isaiah 52, Isaiah 53, and Isaiah 54

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