Thursday, June 2,
2016
May the grace
of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.
Philippians 4:23(NLT)
We are under the influence
of grace that changes us while leading us to joy. So far we’ve seen that grace can help us see the
joy in the midst of tragedy, that it will make you joyfully-grateful, and help
you become a joyful giver.
And now…
Grace makes you a joyful glorifier of God.
Now all glory
to God our Father forever and ever! Amen. Philippians
4:20 (NLT)
It seems Paul often stopped
to praise
God from whom all blessings flow. We also ought to give praise instead of
gripe persistently.
Considering the fact that
God deserves our praise, and we are created for Him, and not ourselves, it
ought to be without question. However,
we don't even have the ability to glorify God, except that He gives that
also!
Danny West[2]
tells how he tried time and again when he was a teenager to ring
the bell. It was one of those contraptions that had a slam-board
and a bell at the top. You slap that
board with a hammer, and the weight flies upward to ring the bell. He never could ring it, no matter how hard he
tried.
Ringing that bell became a
driving passion. Even with all his
adrenaline flowing and his friends rooting him on, he could not ring that
bell.
We have the same problem in doing
church.
There is not anything we can
do, including worship, except by the grace of God. We religiously do our rituals, pay our
tithes, and go through the cultural rites – but where is the joy? I am not saying we ought to cancel the church
services. However, it seems we ought to
be a little more like Paul, and recount the blessings till we cannot but stop
and sing the Doxology!
For You Today
You chew on that as you hit the Rocky Road today…have a
blessed day!
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[1] Title Image: By Meghana Kulkarni from Pune, India
(Happiness), via Wikimedia
Commons
[2]West,
Danny, PROCLAIM MAGAZINE
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