Hello there! I just need to tell you straight out of the gate, THANK YOU. Thank you for being here. If you’ve stuck with me over the years, thank you. Thank you for listening when I can only seem to get out 1 episode a year. Thank you for staying, when there is plenty to pull you away.
The older I get the more bitter sweet this time of year is. I’m learning that joy & sorrow can co exist. On this earth we often don’t find joy without experiencing sorrow. The joy comes OUT OF the sorrow. JOY & SORROW can co exist. They always have. Joy & Sorrow run around like BFFs all over history. We have a perfect Savior who hung on the cross, died for us, and experienced pain and sorrow, BECAUSE of the JOY He would experience being with us. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Jesus chose a life with us over any pain He would experience. The very place where we have experienced our deepest sorrows, will be the very place the Lord has promised to bring us the most satisfying joy. We can only know the fullness of joy, when we have experienced deep loss.
We find joy when we are able to take all of the pain and sorrow we’ve experienced and see how the Lord is using it for his good. For his glory. Sometimes, this process takes decades. It can take a lifetime to see how the Lord can turn sorrow into joy. Sometimes, we won’t experience the fullness of the Lord’s restoration on this side of Heaven. But, he has promised he will bottle up our tears, count them all, and turn them into goodness. There’s hope in the pit of despair, that our great God can take our suffering and use it for his glory. Every time we heal a little piece of our broken self, we take back our inheritance in Christ. We kick the devil in the teeth, and we GAIN oh how we GAIN spiritual treasure.
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