Rejoice and Be Glad

This is the day that the Lord has made;

Let us rejoice and be glad in it!

Psalm 118:24

There is an interesting story about world-class violinist Joshua Bell from January 2007.  A couple days after playing to a packed house where people paid up to $200 for a ticket, Bell changed venues.  He put on street clothes and played outside the L’Efant Plaza Metro station. Bell was taking place in an experiment from the Washington Post.  During Bell’s 45 minute performance outside the metro station, only 7 people stopped to listen.  A stampede of tourists passed by in that time frame, but only 7 had stopped to listen to this world-class performer play the violin.

The point of the story is that a lot of times we miss the blessings that God gives us each day! Part of it could be that we don’t notice them or that we simply take them for granted.  Thanks be to God – for He still daily showers us with His grace…even when we don’t notice or acknowledge it.

Every day we can say along with the Psalmist – “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!”.  Each and every day we can rejoice that we are children of God – His beloved!  We can rejoice in God’s promises to take care of our every need of both body and soul.  And we can rejoice in the accomplished fact of our salvation through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ!

"This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!"