I can hear you now, “You spelled ‘morning’ wrong!” I appreciate you checking my grammar and spelling, but I really do mean “mourning”. Like most of you, I have suffered devastating losses in my life. There were times that the grief, pain, and despair were almost more than I could endure. As I worked through the raw emotions of mourning, God reminded me of his goodness and brought deep joy into my life.
A look in Webster’s Dictionary for the definition of “joy” showed “delight, glee, bliss”. Those words describe the world’s view of joy as an overstated feeling of happiness. My view, as a Christian, is about Biblical joy. Biblical joy is choosing to respond to external circumstances with inner contentment and satisfaction, because we know God uses these difficult circumstances to accomplish His work in and through our lives.
Recently I made a decision that, quite frankly, is causing me to mourn. The decision to end a longstanding friendship and relationship was difficult and I struggled with “trust and obey”, or in this case, “obey and trust”. I have known for a long time that I needed to trust God with this one, but I just could not get to the “obey” part. God was clear in his direction to me; end the relationship. There was no way I could trust God if I wasn’t willing to first obey him. Finally, I was ready to obey and I ended the relationship. Yes, there is grief, mourning, and the temptation to fall back, but I am holding firm through the pain and trusting God to accomplish His work in me for his glory. Even Paul struggled with obedience as he describes in Romans, “I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.” – Romans 7:19 (NLT)
I am reminded of Abraham and his son Isaac. God gave Abraham and his wife a miraculous baby in their old age and promised Abraham that he would be the father of many nations. When God commanded Abraham to build an altar and sacrifice Isaac, Abraham had the unfathomable choice to obey and trust that God would fulfill his promise although all seemed lost. When God saw the obedience of Abraham, he provided another sacrifice, but Abraham had been willing to sacrifice his beloved son. God brought joy to Abraham as he worshipped the greatness of God.
Psalm 30:5b declares, “Weeping may go on all night, but in the morning there is joy.” There is joy in the morning and joy in the mourning!
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May the Lord Bless you my dear sweet sister in Christ.
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Love this, Dee. You are a blessing💕
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Good Morning, my friend. This morning as I was reading my Bible, I read the words “rooted and grounded in love” — and thought of you, the tree, with roots going down deep into the love of Jesus.
Then I read your blog post as the sun rose up over the mountains and was reminded of our prayers for you to remain in your decision like a “tree, firmly planted”…having no idea what a gut-wrenchingly difficult decision you had made. May God give you the perseverance to stand.
Praying for you…with the sun in my eyes:
“We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, because we have heard of your *faith in Christ Jesus* and of the *love you have for all God’s people*–the* faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven* and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel that has come to you…for this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to *fill you with the knowledge of his will *through all the wisdom and understand that the Spirit gives, *so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord* and *please him in every way*: *bearing fruit* in every good work, *growing* in the knowledge of God, *being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might* so that *you may have great endurance and patience*, and *giving joyful thanks* to the Father…”
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