He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it--SOME.
In his imagination he was far away in a little Western town with a missionary minister who was poor, sick, worried, and almost alone in the world--but who was poring over the Bible to find how many times his Lord and Master had told him to "rejoice and be glad."
"Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart."
'And again,' returned I, 'he says, "
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment."'
Furthermore, when I was growing up, my father told me something which I never forget: he said, "My son, you are born, you will cry the world will
rejoices when you die, but live in such a way that the world should cry you should
rejoice when you die." Before coming to the main theme of the book, I respectfully ask to my every reader l, who will cry when you die?
Jesus said to his disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world
rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy.
Synopsis: In these moments when the angel informs her that she is to bear the Son of God, says Marci Alborghetti in "My Spirit
Rejoices: Imagining and Praying the Magnifcat with Mary", everything comes together for Mary.
There are many answers to that question, but one I find helpful is when St Paul tells us that: "Love is never glad about injustice but
rejoices whenever truth wins out."
For example, passage 3:13 reads "And he said, / If you bring joy to others, God
rejoices in you.
Our world today
rejoices in the holy men and women who labour in the Kaligats and Nirmal Hridays in India [Blessed Mother Teresa].
He said love does not
rejoice in wrongdoing, but
rejoices in the truth.
Isaiah
rejoices "heartily in the Lord" because he feels that "the spirit of the Lord God is upon" him (vv 10, 1).
There are many answers to that question,but one which I like is when St Paul tells us that,``Love is never glad about injustice but
rejoices whenever truth wins out.''
Paul does not pray night and day to see them but
rejoices night and day that God has sustained them in the faith.
