Rejoice!

Great sermons yesterday!
(Check them out at www.grbc.net - 12-1-13 AM and PM)

As children of God through Christ, we can rejoice always! - because everything, everything in our lives comes from the loving and wise hand of the God of the universe, who before time planned out our salvation and redemption.

He has promised to make everything in our lives (if we are his children through Christ) work together like ingredients in a cake, to produce in the end a beautiful product that will be for our very best good.

He has promised to be with us always, and that nothing ever anywhere can separate us from his love in Christ.  He has NOT promised to take away all those things - persecution, trouble, neediness, danger, sickness, things present or things to come - but to make us more than conquerors in them. To have his love upon us in all those things. To cause them to produce our good rather than our harm.

Rejoice! Live boldly!
(and remind me of this when I forget it all in the busyness of the day...)