Let the Joy of The Lord be your Strength
As of late I have needed a reminder of what it means to me that The Joy of the Lord is my Strength. I wrote this a year ago and thought it was worth reposting, perhaps someone else will need the reminder too:) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “the joy of the Lord is your strength”. (See Nehemiah 8:10). In fact I find myself singing it in my head often! (Yes, it is a song by Rend Collective:)But what does that mean? What does that look like in my day to day living? How can His joy be my strength? I think of people like Elisabeth Elliot and Corrie Ten Boom. Their lives were full of loss; pain; trials and struggles, yet their joy was in the Lord. Their hope was in Him not their circumstances. Psalm 59:16 (ESV) says, “But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.” When David wrote this Psalm, he was being pursued by Saul as well as friends of Saul,...