[Songs in the Night - February 8]
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. Psalm 32:11
WE TRUST that all of our readers are coming to
appreciate this blessed message more and more—to be
glad in the Lord—a very different thing from being
glad in the trifling things of this world.
He whose
affections are set upon this earth will continually find
tribulations which hinder his rejoicing.
But he who
has set his affections upon things above, on the Lord
and the glorious things which he has promised us, may
indeed rejoice, for our Lord changes not.
"Not one
of his good promises shall fail."
Let all who are honest
in hope, in intention, in endeavor, speak forth the
Lord's praise and shout for joy, not merely that their
unintentional imperfections according to the flesh are
covered, but also in the thought that the reign of
righteousness, the millennial kingdom, is now at hand,
and that under its domination all the families of the
earth shall be blessed after the great Adversary, Satan,
shall have been bound. Z'08-331 R4273:4 (Hymn 248)