For The Joy Set Before Us...

PAD Challenge Day 12: For today's prompt, write a future poem. 

Heb.12:2

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; 

who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, 

despising the shame, and is set down 

at the right hand of the throne of God.

Luke 2:10

And the angel said unto them, Fear not: 

for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, 

which shall be to all people.

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

A hymn of great joy!

What lies behind we cannot change

What looms ahead we cannot see

Today, the day the Lord has made

Brims with redemption's majesty

Good tidings of great joy still ring

As we press on to life's reward

Anchored in mercy's offering

A Saviour, who is Christ the Lord

The message that the angels bore

Still peals with hope's favor and grace

Concealed in joy still set before

When we behold Him face to face

 

The evidence of things unseen

Is worth the fight that faith employs

As we endure what lies between

Each step we take to Heaven's joys 

Fear not, for unto us this day

Glad tidings of great joy resound

Nothing can take our hope away

As we traverse time's holy ground

A Saviour, who is Christ the Lord

Has borne our sorrow and our grief

He suffered what none could afford

The punishment that brought us peace

For the joy set before Him He

Endured the cross, despised its shame

Seeing beyond the agony

To all who would call on His Name

Made perfect through His suffering

Where we esteemed Him stricken, He

Salvation's captain, crushed the sting

Of death, robbed graves of victory

The message that the angels told

In days of old, none can destroy

The anchor of the cross will hold

Till hope is crowned with Heaven's joy

Janet Martin

1 Cor.1:18

For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness;

 but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.