Philippians 3:1 Whatever happens, my dear brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord!....
Apostle Paul was in prison for the sake of the gospel when he wrote those words, and I would think it was awful and yet he says, "Whatever happens!" The Holy Spirit is speaking through him to say no matter what you may have lost, whatever may be happening or whatever awful thing has happened, He says to remember that we have not lost our Saviour or His salvation.
We still have God living on the inside of us, God still loves us and always will, He will never abandon us and there is always hope in Him. We can rejoice in those things.
He doesn't say rejoice about what has happened to you, but to rejoice because all is not lost because we still have Jesus and nothing is impossible with Him.
He goes on to say" ...I never get tired of telling you these things, and do it to safeguard your faith."
He's saying as long as we keep remembering to rejoice in what God has done for us through Jesus, in forgiving all our sins, in rescuing us from going to Hell, in giving us His righteousness and grace, in giving us His promises, as long as we keep rejoicing in those things, our faith will remain steady and we wont wobble.
When we're tempted to focus on the upsetting, or bad things that may be happening, let's turn things around instead with praise, because we know praise defeats the enemy, and when we rejoice we're defeating the enemy big time which is what we want.
Whatever happens nothing and nobody can take Jesus from us and there is always hope as we keep our trust and confidence in Him, so we can rejoice in the Lord today. 😊
Help us to remember that Lord and to do it. Amen.
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