Pleasing to the LORD is a grateful heart that gives thanks in seasons of little or plenty. “Though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vine, though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no fruit, though the flocks should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls, yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:17-18). Sow your seed this day with diligence and skill, apply yourself completely to the task at hand. And at the end of the day rejoice in what the LORD has graciously given you, for it is He who causes the increase and not yourself.
Hope "Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6)."
Psalms Blessed is the man
Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly,
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
by J.A. Matteson
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