— adapted from Dennis Rainey
"Our joy and contentment doesn't have to be taken away by the bleak clouds of winter", or the trying winds and thunderous roar of life's storms, "or the long wait until our next vacation." As beloved and loved and highly favored children of God, our well-being and joy are radically independent of our current, past and future circumstances.
"Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food, though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. The Lord GOD is my strength" (Habakkuk 3:17-19).
God is there with us every day of the year. His love is both unconditional and inescapable! May we be washed and anointed with the oil of gladness.
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