DAILY TRUTH - Sorrowful, Yet Always Rejoicing
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Summary
Even in the midst of sorrow and disappointment, we are always rejoicing in God's goodness and grace. Jesus was a man of sorrows, but it was not disappointment about himself. It was disappointment in relation to others.
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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Jesus, I believe the scripture teaches that Jesus, even in his incarnation, even in his earthly
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ministry, was a happy person. Now I am aware of the scriptures that say that he was acquainted
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with grief and a man of sorrows. So certainly Jesus experienced sorrow, but even in relation
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to Jesus' sorrow, it was not sorrow about himself. Jesus wasn't disappointed with himself. He wasn't
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frustrated with his own deficiencies or his own lack because he has no lack. Even in his earthly
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ministry, he is the sinless son of God. And so his frustration, his sorrows that Isaiah speak of in
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Isaiah chapter 53, the sorrow of Christ is ultimately in relation to his love for his own
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triune self, his love for his father. And the fact that the people, this fallen world that
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surrounds him are in rebellion to the father. Jesus is often grieved or troubled in spirit,
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but even in his troubledness, it is in relation to the unbelief of his disciples, the unbelief
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of the crowds who he's preaching to. So Jesus' disappointment is ultimately in relation to
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others. And even in the midst of this disappointment, as the scripture says elsewhere,
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The Apostle Paul says that we as Christians, when we're shaped more and more into the image
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of Christ, we are still sorrowful at this time in this life, and yet in the midst of
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Rejoicing because even in the midst of sorrowful circumstances, sorrowful surroundings, sorrowful
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situations, we have this rejoicing in the end game, in the ultimate reality that we
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trust and hope for and anticipate, which is that we are going to be with God forevermore and that
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he himself will wipe away every tear. There will be no more mourning. There will be no more sadness.
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There will be no more death, no more sickness, no more disease, no more loss, that we will be
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completely filled with joy and peace and satisfaction in God forever. And so even in
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midst of sorrowful circumstances, we have sorrow and yet we are always rejoicing. And so my point
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in all this is to say that at a human level, so much of our own frustration and disappointment
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and sadness is in relation to the fact that we don't have any true perfections. We are imperfect.
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We are fallen. And yet God is perfect. And so it only makes sense that God would be constantly and
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continually and forever, eternally celebrating and experiencing nothing but pleasure in his own
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