Good Sunday morning! The sun is shining brightly after two days of rain. I don't have to be a prophet to predict some green grass and plants around here very soon. Are you ready for recovery? Do you feel the sun shining after the storm? I believe that the end has not come just yet. We have a mighty and awesome God who is greater than the problems we see now! Trust in God and live your dreams. These days it would be easy to give in to despair. The attitude of gloom might cause us to not plant a garden because "it will just get hailed out." I figure that there are two ways to get nothing from a garden, a disaster like a sudden storm, or not planting it at all. If I go ahead and plant, I will at least have the benefit of the exercise and watching the little plants grow. I cannot pray for a garden that I did not plant.
Ministers today are calling for repentance and rejoicing. The repentance part is easy to understand in these dark times, but the rejoicing might seem a bit out of place. However, God calls us to repent and rejoice; His ministers are simply following our Lord Jesus.
If we only rejoice in the easy times how will people know that we belong to the Lord? Anyone can rejoice when winning the lottery; in Christ we rejoice when losing a job because we know that God has new things in store for us. In Christ we rejoice even when grieving for the death of a loved one for we know that God has taken them home to be with Him. In Christ we rejoice when it seems to the world that we should not. That is how the world knows that we belong to Jesus. Rejoicing at those times is not easy, and we must trust in God to give us the strength to let our light shine.
Have a blessed Sunday in Christ!
Bucky
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