Joy Like a Fountain
He's telling us to be joyful. But it's not the type of joy you experience when things are going well and your life just couldn't get any better.
He's telling us to be joyful. But it's not the type of joy you experience when things are going well and your life just couldn't get any better.
Don't make the assumption that your godly pedigree is a guarantee that you are assured a seat in first class and a special audience with the Father.
You can approach life expecting to be served, or you can look for opportunities to serve others.
We may not be able to do what we used to do for one reason or another, but think about what you can do as servants of a loving God with what you have.
They had a problem with organized religion and organized religion seemed to have a problem with them.
Why should we feel threatened by someone who wants to live in a decent house, get a good education, work to improve themselves, make more money, and get to go to a doctor when they are sick and not at death's door?
We have a place to be and it's not before an altar, it is in the world, in the city, with both the needy neighbor and the enemy.
Worry is pointless because it can't fill our needs; worry is foolish because the Creator of the universe loves us and knows what we need.
The old life was gone, put behind him and he met each new day with a smile, and a hope in what is unseen.
In order to be saved by the Law, a person would have to live a perfect life, not sinning once. How difficult would that be!