Our Belief Causes Us to Abound in Joy (TMF:974)

Thursday, September 13, 2018
Peace to Live By: Our Belief Causes Us to Abound in Joy (TMF:974) - Daniel Litton
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       Even though we cannot see God with our own eyes in our lives, for we do not see him physically standing next to us, we still believe in him. And this belief, Peter tells us, causes us to abound in joy, to rejoice, with a joy that is indescribable, something that we really cannot put our finger on or even explain to others (see 1 Peter 1:8, 9). Sometimes it is hard to express. We say we just know what we know. We know that we belong to God, that he is present within us, and that we have communion with him. And this joy we have is filled with glory, and ultimately leads to us inheriting our salvation by the faith of our souls, going to Heaven when we die. And so we worship God as a result of our joy (see Luke 24:52, 53). We bless God with the things that we speak to him and about him. And our joy in our lives, which comes from God, gives us strength. For it is written, “The joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10, ESV). When we spend time in prayer with God, when we fellowship with him, our hearts rejoice, and as Jesus said, “no one will take your joy from you” (John 16:22, ESV).