Today in my quiet time I was reading in My Utmost for His Highest. Today’s devotional was about serving God with ‘Undaunted Radiance’.
I am just going to put in a small portion of what it said…
“The surf that distresses the ordinary swimmer produces in the surf-rider the super-joy of going clean through it. Apply that to our own circumstances, these very things – tribulation, distress, persecution, produce in us the super-joy; they are not things to fight. We are more than conquerors through Him in all these things, not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. The saint never knows the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it – ‘I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation,’ says Paul.”
That was such a good reminder to me on how I need to not be just surviving but have a ‘super-joy’ through everything that comes my way! I have such a hope that the world does not have. God is so faithful!!! He will never leave us or forsake us. I want to have that ‘super-joy’!!!