Be grateful. For life, and life to the fullest. Know that on your worst days, that your best will outshine them. The Lord has done great things for us! We are alive and abundantly joyful with new and beautiful opportunities every day. Opportunities to shine, to be light. To be a city on a hill which cannot be hidden from the world. We are to be the salt of the Earth. Be conspicuous today.
Joy ought to fill our hearts. Because of Jesus. Be thankful when everything is going exactly as you've always imagined. And when you would like nothing better than to put your face in your hands and weep, be thankful. Ecclesiastes 7:14 says that God is the origin of the good and the bad. We serve a Master who so desires good for us, that even that which seems unbearable, is for our ultimate betterment.
We ache so badly for someone to look upon us and have pity, and feel a pain in their heart for us. This has been accomplished friends. The beautiful Father over all existence looked upon His beloved, and had great sorrow for us. Because of what had taken hold of our hearts. And He had inexplicable mercy on us.
We have been pitied, and have received our charity from that pity, which was Christ Jesus. That which we had not worked to earn. That which, because of our filth and dishevelment, would never have been given us, except from pure and glorious kindness of heart. The gift of life, dropped into our outstretched palm, which begged for some benevolence, even if too proud to ask for it.
Our life is pure joy. Even in sorrow. All because of Jesus.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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