In a world full of suffering and despair, how is it possible to rejoice always? The news cycle is full of reporting on division, instability, and persecution. Families are struggling, businesses are closing, and children are practicing drills in classrooms, preparing for the possibility of the inconceivable.
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So what is it? What is the secret to rejoicing always? Well, the promise. We hold onto an eternal promise. It is a promise of glory that surpasses the experience of suffering of the day. A promise that produces hope within us. It is a concept hard for our human minds to grasp. So we put our full trust and faith in God, the Creator of all. For His ways are not our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts. He is our assurance, not the ease of suffering.
The truth is, we live in a broken world, but we serve the everlasting God. Our rejoicing is not absent from the realities of the day, but it is also full of confident anticipation of what is to come. Only when we have a true revelation about who God is and a trusted expectation of living eternally with Him can we live our lives always rejoicing. Because one day, we will go from groans to glory. And that is something to rejoice about.
With Love,
Tamara
Scripture To Meditate On
‘Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. ‘
‘Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! ‘
‘When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her time has come. But when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the suffering because of the joy that a person has been born into the world. So you also have sorrow now. But I will see you again. Your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy from you. “In that day you will not ask me anything. Truly I tell you, anything you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.’
‘For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. ‘
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Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.
