Last Sunday we highlighted the subject of joy – in particular the joy of salvation. God intends for His children to be happy in Him regardless of the outward circumstances. There is only one kind of joy that exceeds that of having an intelligent assurance of one's own salvation – that is the joy of seeing another soul for whom you've prayed and been deeply burdened come to faith in Christ. As one believer said to an unsaved friend, “To see you in heaven would be two heavens for me!”
God has ordained that “they that sow in tears shall reap in joy” (Ps. 126:5). It was “for the joy that was set before him” that Jesus endured the sorrows of Gethsemane and Calvary. Now He invites us to participate in both His sufferings and joy.
Are you content to remain “barren” spiritually? Or are you as desperate for spiritual children as Rachel was for physical offspring (Gen. 30:1 “Give me children, or else I die.”)? Spiritual travail is still the law of the kingdom. Are our hearts truly set on the rescuing of souls from a burning Hell? Then we must gain that end or our hearts will break in losing it!
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Bob Vradenburgh is the senior pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has spent 40 years in full-time Christian service: the first 20 years as a missionary and the past 20 years in the pastorate. Bob’s passion is the expository preaching of God’s Word,...
