Finding Joy

“Paul instructs us to always rejoice. We look around at this broken world and wonder how he could expect it of us. Didn’t he know that disappointments wait around every bend? That people let each other down? That sickness and death mock us? Haven’t we all been there? We read that joy will come in the morning, but we aren’t sure how to make it through the night.

Paul knew that the world weighs heavy on mortal shoulders and that heaven seems a little too far away some days. He was aware of painful good-byes and wayward children and ill parents. The earth spins fast and anxiety grips us and decisions must be made.

‘Rejoice in the Lord.’ Paul said. It may seem as though he didn’t have a clue, but he did understand hardship. He knew that if we leaned on anything except Christ, we’d surely fall. Paul was right in telling us to rejoice in the Lord, there’s no joy to be found anywhere else…” (Joyful)