Verse of the day: “please the Lord”. (Psalm 37. 4)
The teaching of these words must be very surprising for those who are oblivious to vital piety. But for the sincere believer, this teaching is only the repetition of a recognized truth. The life of the believer is described as pleasing to the Lord; and we are sure that true Christianity is filled with happiness and joy. Evil and nominal Christians never see genuine Christianity as something that produces joy. For them, true Christianity is a service, a duty, or a necessity; never, however, pleasure or satisfaction. If they somehow participate in Christianity, they do so because they want to make personal gains or because they dare not behave differently.
- The idea of pleasure in Christianity is so foreign to many people that two words in their vocabulary must be kept separate from each other: “Holiness? and “pleasure”.
- But believers who know Christ understand that joy and faith are linked in such a way that the gates of hell cannot prevail to separate them.
- Do those who love God with all their hearts find that His ways are delightful ways and that all His ways are peace? (Proverbs 3.
- 17).
- Such joys.
- Warm pleasures and abundant bliss are so discovered by the saints in their Lord that.
- Instead of serving him in the usual way.
- They would follow him even though the whole world would banish his name as evil.
- Our faith is not wives.
- Just as the confession of being a true Christian is not slavery.
- We are not attracted to holiness and we are not driven to duty.
- No.
- Our mercy is our pleasure; our hope is our happiness; and our duty is our pleasure.
- Are contentment and true religion as close as the flower and the root? as indivisible as truth and certainty.
- They are.
- In fact.
- Two precious jewels.
- Shining next to each other.
- In a golden frame.