November 9, 2024

November 9:  Glad Tidings.

Receive the Word With Joy and Rejoicing.
When your words come, I ate them; they were my joy and heart's delight, for I bear your name, Lord God Almighty.--Jeremiah 15:16, NIV

THE WORD OF GOD in the Old and New Testament, if faithfully studied and received into the life, will give spiritual wisdom and life.  This word is to be sacredly cherished.  Faith in the word of God and in the power of Christ to transform the life will enable the believer to work His works and to live a life of rejoicing in the Lord.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 9, 279.

The life in which the fear of the Lord is cherished will not be a life of sadness and gloom.  It is the absence of Christ that makes the countenance sad, and the life of pilgrimage of sighs.  Those who are filled with self-esteem and self-love do not feel the need of a living, personal union with Christ.  The heart that has fallen on the Rock is proud of its wholeness.  Men want a dignified religion.  They desire to walk in a path wide enough to take in their own attributes.  Their self-love, their love of popularity and love of praise, exclude the Saviour from their hearts, and without Him there is gloom and sadness.  But Christ dwelling in the soul is a wellspring of joy.  For all who receive Him, the very keynote of the word of God is rejoicing.--Christ's Object Lessons, 162.

                                         I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,
                                         My soul shall be joyful in my God;
                               For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,
                                  He has covered me with the robe of righteousness.
                                                                                             --Isaiah 61:10, NKJV