“Rejoice,” I pronounced to our
church congregation. “It's a command. In fact it's a double
command. Paul tells us, 'Rejoice always in the Lord; again I tell
you, rejoice!'”
Probably I should not have been the one
saying this. It was a bit like a politician urging his constituency
to always be truthful.
But even in the Beatitudes where the
Lord Jesus speaks of the blessedness of being poor, of mourning, of
meekness and being persecuted, He concludes by telling us to rejoice.
In God's economy, the very things that
we think will make us unhappy and cause us to feel that we are
unblessed are exactly what He uses to put us in a situation where
rejoicing is the only sensible thing to do.
LR
LR
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