One Life

How often is our joy circumstantial. We rejoice and celebrate when a certain blessing comes, when a victory is won, or when difficulty is averted. Rejoicing in such things is good and proper, but we live in and seek such blessings almost like a drug without which we can’t be happy. There is a contentment regardless of circumstance and a rejoicing in sour circumstance that is far more foreign and set apart from this world than the circumstantial joy that it too shares. This distinct and holy (set apart) joy in definitive relationship with Jesus Christ that trumps every circumstance is the light that shines drawing people to our Lord. When the non-believer sees that for the Christian every sunrise is more beautiful, every dark valley less gloomy, and every smile brighter they will know that you are a child of the Living God.

Psa. 32:1 ¶ Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.