Rejoice and be Joyful!

Ever have a bad day?
A bad week?
A bad month?
A bad............
I could go on and on.
But how about losing all you have.
All your personal possessions.

Many in the Gulf Coast states have lost everything as well as even some here in the Rossville and northeast Kansas counties last week during the floods.

It’s hard to rejoice when bad things are happening.
Hard to rejoice when you lost your job.
Hard to rejoice when the little ones are teething and you haven’t slept in several nights.
Hard to rejoice when your spouse says I’m leaving.
Hard to rejoice when you can’t pay the bills.
Hard to rejoice when your best friend dies of cancer.
Hard to rejoice when the pain you have is unbearable.

Even through the pain, suffering, and destruction of life there is still One to be thankful for and rejoice and praise continually!

"Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior."
Habakkuk 3:17-18