Happy 4th! Praise God for this country!

– Worldly joy is due to favorable circumstances. – Godly joy is in spite of unfavorable circumstances.

– Worldly peace is due to health, bank account, and insurance.
– Godly peace is in the midst of a chaos.

– Worldly love is only for those deserving.
– Godly love is for the undeserving.

How can we attain godly joy, peace, and love? Only when we fix our eyes on the God who is outside of this world, who transcends this world and its problems.

Where does your love, joy, peace come from? Relative health, job security, savings account, lovely features, etc? If so, they will be short-lived. Anything that depends on our circumstances can only be short-lived since ALL of our circumstances will turn toward decaying and deterioration – it’s called aging…

“All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field… The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.” Isa. 40:6,8

All men are like grass. If I don’t water my grass for 3 days, they turn brown. The tulips planted in my backyard bloomed for 2 weeks and they are long gone. We will be gone before anyone remembers us. Do not put so much effort on nor agonize so much over “petty” things. Remember God and His Son and their majesty. Go for godly joy, peace, and love!

PH