Day 2 - Week 59 - Philippians 4:4 "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!"

Have again been out of town for a few days...seems we have a spring full of short trips!  I always enjoy getting away, but it is always so good to come home.  Coming home always has a special feel to it, doesn't it?  And then I'm remembered that someday we will truly come home, and I believe everything we find "at home" will feel so perfectly right, so familiar, so comfortable...and yet so far beyond our wildest human imaginations.  I was reminded of all this by a post by a good friend of mine requoting Priscilla Shirer.  Priscilla's insightful statement was, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience for a few years." When we remember that we are on our way home, then we can view even our hard times here with the perspective of eternal joy.

Maybe that's it---maybe that's why Paul tells us we can rejoice always...maybe that's why James tells us to count it pure joy when we face trials...maybe that's why Jesus reminded us that in this world we will have troubles, but take heart...He has overcome the world!!

Robert J. Morgan says it this way,

We may not be able to rejoice in our load, but we can rejoice in our Lord.  We may find no joy in our situation, but we can rejoice in our Savior.  To rejoice in the Lord means we rejoice in our unassailable, unchanging relationship with the sovereign Lord and in His qualities, gifts, promises and attributes.

When we start allowing our minds to dwell on our undeserved and yet unfathomable relationship with Jesus, the Son of God, and all the promises that come with that relationship, how can we not be joyful.  I'll say it again, let's rejoice!!