Rejoice!!!!!!

How did the frown fast go?

Mine went...not so good. I found that I pout and frown a lot, for no reason what so ever, and the majority of the time, without even realizing what I'm doing. People this is not okay. As much as I would love to pass my "moods" off as nothing, they are not nothing, and neither are yours. Philippians  4:4 says, "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!" 

I'm pretty sure that says "always", not "sometimes". It's easy to rejoice when everything in our world is great, it's when the going gets tough that that's not so easy. Regardless of when rejoicing is hard or easy, we are called to do it anyway. 

Here are some pretty basic reasons why we have every reason in the world and in the heavenly realms to rejoice...

1. God! God is real, and everything else flows from that. Including our moods. Consider what our moods would be like if God weren't real...deplorable! And we would have good reason for it if that were the case, but it's not!!! He is so real, therefore our rejoicing and joy should be so real.

2. Jesus! We are a saved people, there is nothing in our lives worth our worry. As actual Christians, believers in God, and as his loving followers, we're going to Heaven. Therefore we will be okay, no matter what happens on this earth. That's all because of Jesus!

3. Holy Spirit! We are never alone. We are always accompanied by the Holy Spirit, no matter how big of a mess we are in.

4. We live in the United States of America! We have every material possession we could ever need of ask for. We have the basic needs...clothing, shelter, and food, because we live in this great nation. Plus, being a christian wont get you killed here. I would say that's pretty awesome

5. We have incredible families!

6. We have incredible friends! 

7. We belong to, with out a doubt, the most loving church family in the world!

and I'm going to stop because that's 7, a whole number. But you and I both know that we could go on literally forever.

The point is that yeah, we have allll these reasons to rejoice, but even if we didn't, does God need a reason to ask us to do something? No, He's called us to rejoice always, so lets rejoice with all of our hearts!

Psalms 86: 8-10

Among the gods there in none like you, O Lord; no deeds can compare with yours.

All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O Lord; they will bring glory to your name. 

For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are God.

Gloria