Monday Encouragement: We need it!

Good Morning!

It's a beautiful time to be alive is it not? Another day in another week and we get to live it!

I've been struck lately by how often we ignore these things in the world that we live in. It is so easy at times to be the woman that looks at the shattering elements of society and thinks, "why should I be happy when this is the world I have to work with as I get my life started?"

I'm there. I'm totally 100% with you on that. 

However, thinking through this is a process, isn't it? As Christians, we are definitely aware of where our true happiness and success come from. Our first inclination, though, is to consider hopelessness instead of hopefulness. Our sin natures and carnal perspectives are the most likely culprits here. As a person who often delves deep into politics and trending events, it's easy to let the carnal side take over. 

But the mere mention of Christ's goodness towards us draws me back each. and. every. time. 

"Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls."

1 Peter 1:8-9

His goodness is found in that glorious salvation and faith through the same. The provider and giver of this gift of salvation changes my perspective immediately. It reminds me of how powerful his matchless love is; even in a world where so much else holds importance. 

Many see what goes on, and they trust in the precarious nature of things, blindly. I do not blame such people, for many trust only what they can see. It is asking Christ for the strengthened faith to draw closer to what we cannot see, but what we can feel with our entire beings, that reveals this "inexpressible joy" Peter relays here. Who better to tell us about that?

I have thought I felt fear of this world. I have thought I felt hesitation. I have believed ardently in a precarious tomorrow. 

But I believe more strongly in today and 1,000 years into an unpredictable future with Christ. A day and many more in which I will not have seen Christ, but feel Him, and therefore reap an inexpressible joy and get to be a rustic, humble, sanctuary filled with His glory. 

Find this happiness today, brothers and sisters! I love you.

Maddie-