God has no worries about tomorrow for He is already in eternity and in His kingdom things are always bright and shiny, beautiful and filled with all goodness and perfect delight. Although He calls us all to consider the future of our eternity for the souls safe keeping, He wants us to love and live with Him every moment in the beautiful place of His RIGHT NOW PRESENCE.....
When we are all walking in Gods beautiful right now presence abiding in the path of His peace and goodwill for us on earth, even when the hardships and the persecutions come at us for obeying God, He will give us a beautiful strange joy that will strengthen us with His presence within. It is written that Jesus even ENDURED THE CROSS thru the joy that was set before him (Hebrews 12:2).
Did you notice after the Lords strong prayers in tears that he ascended to the Father in drops of blood in the garden of Gethsemane, that after that fierce battle of his soul facing THE CROSS, did you notice that suddenly the cries ceased, the pleas stopped, and the Lord never once ever again complained. One hour he was under so much stress and pressure that blood was coming thru hi pores. His knees buckle under the weight of facing the Cross, but once His prayer broke thru and prevailed and that Angel strengthened him, Jesus even when they ripped his flesh so violently apart with those clipped whips, and even when they drove all those nails with hammers into his feet and hands he complained not, but instead in that joy that God gave him, he said,"Father Forgive Them." JESUS WAS ENDURING. The joy imparted to him was his enduring strength.
The strange joy that I'm speaking of rose up from within Jesus and that joy was at work in all his redeeming and soul saving sufferings. Not even once did he grumble, gripe, or complain after the joy rose up within him and was having its perfect work in his obeying his Father to taste death by the means of the Cross for every man. Even as it is written, God can make rough places pleasant to his own. He can make the roughest rocks smooth for our feet. And in that other place, The Joy of the Lord is our STRENGTH.
God I pray in Jesus name that we all learn to trust You fully and obey you faithfully and in this established path, we enjoy more and more your RIGHT NOW WITH US PRESENCE in this present crazy world no matter what is going on on earth, for we are filled and full of the Holy Spirit with Joy. Jesus truly is the Good Shepherd. Jesus truly is Lord.....Amen.....deno......share freely.
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