The first devotion for this week's "Word to Live By" -- REJOICE -- really encourages my heart.
God delights in restoring and replenishing. This applies to possessions and relationships. Remember Job? Without wrongdoing or bad choices, he lost everything simply because Satan desired to test him. Yet afterward, "The Lord made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before....The Lord blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first" (Job 42: 10,12).
Remember Joseph? His brothers sold him into slavery, costing him his youth and forcing him into a foreign culture and many trials. Years later, his loss turned to gain as he earned the Pharaoh's trust and was put in charge of all Egypt. When his brothers came searching for food to stave off the famine of their homeland, Joseph was in a position to help -- and forgive. Instead of being bitter, he rejoiced that God honed a horrifying ordeal into glorifying generosity. To the brothers who betrayed him, he said: "You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good..." (Genesis 50:20).
What difficulty, challenge, or trial are you facing that you need to trust God to turn into good? Rejoice, for He is still in the business of restoring and replenishing.
This week let's rejoice as we watch for ways our Heavenly Father restores and replenishes that which was "taken" from us--whether peace of mind, possessions, comfort, health, or hope. He will send abundant showers. He will repay us for the years the locusts have eaten. He will turn what seemed intended to harm us into good. Rejoice!
For more ways to activate the word REJOICE in your life, join my friends Linda and Dalene on their Weekly Words to Live By Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/
we are loved and chosen by God,
may we live like we believe it,
veneal
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