ALL WE COULD DO IS LAUGH

Ps.126:2,3 – TPT – We laughed and laughed and overflowed with gladness.
We were left shouting for joy and singing your praise.
All the nations saw it and joined in, saying,
“The Lord has done great miracles for them!”
Yes, he did mighty miracles and we are overjoyed!

Have you ever been so happy that words were just not enough? That’s what the Psalmist is describing in this Psalm, their sorrow from the time of struggle and lack had suddenly and unexpectedly ended. An unprecedented harvest had swallowed up their lack. They were speechless but they could not stop laughing.
This passage has the taste of Pentecost and Jubilee all wrapped up in one package. Jubilee was the prophetic 50 year celebration when slaves were freed and debt was cancelled. Pentecost was the annual celebration of harvest. This passage smells of supernatural, unprecedented harvest and liberation. The prophets spoke of a day when the plowman would overtake the harvester because of the excessive nature of the harvest. This is a description of that. Here is how Charles Spurgeon describes this special time.

“Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. So full were they of joy that they could not contain themselves. They must express their joy and yet they could not find expression for it. Irrepressible mirth could do no other than laugh, for speech was far too dull a thing for it. The mercy was so unexpected, so amazing, so singular that they could not do less than laugh; and they laughed much, so that their mouths were full of it, and that because their hearts were full too. When at last the tongue could move articulately, it could not be content simply to talk, but it must needs sing; and sing heartily too, for it was full of singing.”

All of us are familiar with the sorrow of unrealized dreams and unfulfilled expectations. Things just did not pan out the way we had hoped. This passage speaks of a day of divine intervention when our sorrows are swallowed up by unspeakable joy. This is beyond just financial blessing, this is something so big that your soul is swallowed up in supernatural joy. This is the description of Pentecostal outpouring, the harvest of the earth has finally come. Old Testament Pentecost was a celebration of the harvest of the land, this last day Pentecost is much greater. It is the harvest of the earth from the seeds of the gospel that have been sown for 2000 years.