The Joy of the Lord - Nehemiah 8:10

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"The joy of the Lord is your strength." - Nehemiah 8:10

Our capacity for joy now is not what it will be by and by, but it is possible now to have our little earthen vessels as full as they can hold of the joy of the Lord... (John 14:23.) In such company as this can any Christian fail utterly to realize some measure of joy in the Lord? No, if his faith grasps the promise and holds it, the realization of joy in the Lord is sure to follow, and the more firmly his faith lays hold upon the promise the more will he realize its fulfillment, and the more fully will his joys abound; for in the presence of the Lord is fulness of joy, no matter what may be the conditions and circumstances.​

 

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"The joy of the Lord is your strength." - Nehemiah 8:10

Our capacity for joy now is not what it will be by and by, but it is possible now to have our little earthen vessels as full as they can hold of the joy of the Lord... (John 14:23.) In such company as this can any Christian fail utterly to realize some measure of joy in the Lord? No, if his faith grasps the promise and holds it, the realization of joy in the Lord is sure to follow, and the more firmly his faith lays hold upon the promise the more will he realize its fulfillment, and the more fully will his joys abound; for in the presence of the Lord is fulness of joy, no matter what may be the conditions and circumstances.​

Amen…no matter the trials, grief, sorrow and the pressures of living in this sin filled world, I live in Romans 8:28 and Jesus promise He will never leave or forsake me.
We may not always be happy, but we can know a deeper inner joy.
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? Who will bring charges against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, but rather, was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or trouble, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Just as it is written: “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG; WE WERE REGARDED AS SHEEP TO BE SLAUGHTERED.”

But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.”


(Romans 8:31-37 NAS20)

 

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"The joy of the Lord is your strength." - Nehemiah 8:10

Our capacity for joy now is not what it will be by and by, but it is possible now to have our little earthen vessels as full as they can hold of the joy of the Lord... (John 14:23.) In such company as this can any Christian fail utterly to realize some measure of joy in the Lord? No, if his faith grasps the promise and holds it, the realization of joy in the Lord is sure to follow, and the more firmly his faith lays hold upon the promise the more will he realize its fulfillment, and the more fully will his joys abound; for in the presence of the Lord is fulness of joy, no matter what may be the conditions and circumstances.​

There is something to the fact of being created in the image of God (at least, that is what I think is behind this phenomenon) that there are things we instinctively know or at least think, that intellectually we are unable to grasp —not because they are not intellectually 'graspable', so much as because the intensity of them, and the implications of them that sit just outside the boundaries of our understanding, are so enormous that we dare not go there, and those that try to, end up mad or off on their own false use of them.

It is a mercy of God that we have not been able (permitted?) to go there, just as Moses was unable to see God's face and live. But, soon enough...