Today’s Scripture: Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Psalm 51:12 ESV My spirit is broken and this brings me joy. This may be contrary to our nature but it is the very nature of God. Our brokenness offered to God is where we find and experience His unchangeable and everlasting love. We may feel guilty ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: My soul lives with God.
Today’s Scripture: Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die. Ezekiel 18:4 ESV This is a personal thing between each of us and God. Ezekiel 18 makes this clear that our souls belong to God and we can turn to Him or away. We are promised that if we turn to God we will ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I look to God with my eyes and my heart for direction.
Today’s Scripture: My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways. Proverbs 23:26 ESV God’s ways are the ways to lasting delight. Proverbs 23 shares many of the dead end ways the world directs us. If we give our hearts and eyes to the ways of the world, we find temporary pleasures that rob us of lasting joy. I almost chuckle as ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I find joy in praising God.
Today’s Scripture: Sing praises to the LORD, O you his saints, and give thanks to his holy name. Psalm 30:4 ESV Have you witnessed how praising God puts everything in order? We do are not called to praise God because our life is in order but our life comes into order by praising God. Don’t you love the promise in the very next verse that ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: My joy is full.
Today’s Scripture: Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. John 16:24 ESV God has revealed the fullness of His joy. Jesus shared with His disciples here at the last supper a joy they yet understood. Have we come to know the fullness of His joy? These chapters in John recounting the last ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: I have been cleansed by the blood of Jesus.
Today’s Scripture: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7 KJV I have seen it, have you? Just as this eyewitness account given by the author of 1 John, I write to you these things so our joy may be complete. 1 John 1 is one ... Continue Reading »
Affirmation of God: God is my source of Joy.
Today’s Scripture: For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalms 30:5 ESV Joy will always follow our tears. How uplifting is the hope we feel knowing joy will come with the morning. Planning to update my first writing on this passage I enjoyed the ... Continue Reading »
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