Advent Devotions Tuesday, Dec. 11th, Our Savior Lutheran Church, Gatlinburg, TN

Zephaniah 3: 17-20

The Lord, your God is in your midst, a warrior who gives victory;
he will rejoice over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival.
I will remove disaster from you so that you will not bear reproach for it.
I will deal with all your oppressors at that time.
And I will save the land and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise and renown in all the earth.
At that time I will bring you home, at the time when I gather you; for I will make you renowned and praised among all the people of the earth, when I restore your fortunes before your eyes, says the Lord.

Zephaniah makes a remarkable proclamation.  God will rejoice over the people with gladness.  God will renew them in his love.  God will exult over them with loud singing.  The very things we would expect to do in God’s presence, Zephaniah declares God does in our midst.  What does it mean to you to think that God rejoices over us, renews us in his love, and exults over us with loud singing?

Thank you to Pastor Jim Kroninger of Our Savior Lutheran Church for providing the content for the devotions. 

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We worship every Sunday at 10:30 am with Sunday School at 9:15 am. We hold evening worship on Thursdays in December with dinner at 5:30 pm and worship at 6:30 pm, we participate in the Holden Evening Prayer Worship Service.