Returning
Home with Victory, Washington Nationals 1st
Baseman, Ryan Zimmerman displays the 2019 World Series Trophy
Today,
reply is on authentic Christian celebration. Many Christians will
not celebrate Halloween and popular holidays that appear to continue
fear, gluttony, idolatry, misery, rebellion, wickedness, and
willfulness. Even so, Christians are committed to celebrating
liberty, life, and prosperity. To acknowledge the home team winning
the 2019 World Series baseball championship, the Nation’s
Capitol, Washington, D. C., held a public sports rally on a Saturday
(Sabbath) afternoon that was attended by thousands. Among the
followers of Jesus Christ, rejoicing does not have to appear as
colorful and loud social gatherings that feature eating, drinking,
excitement, and carnal pleasure. Because joy is an aspect of divine
fullness, where genuine joy appears, divinity always is present; and
joy that also is invisible may be discerned by balance, modesty,
quiet, restraint, silence, and rest. Divinely provided joy is
inseparable from faith, forbearance, holiness, longsuffering,
lovingkindness, wisdom, and wrath against sin. Joy will appear as
the expression of gratitude and reverence to divinity through actions
such as affirming accord and agreement; confessing ones own
accountability, commitment, limits, needs, and infirmities; declaring
the name (accomplishments; reputation), personhood, and works of
divinity; displaying humility; bestowing gifts, offerings, praise,
sacrifice, and worship on behalf of divinity; and yielding to GOD for
reconciliation, resolution of conflict, and the settlement of
disputes and quarrels. It is written: Psalms 45: 6-8, King James
Version (KJV): 1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the
things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of
a ready writer. 2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace
is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with
thy glory and thy majesty. 4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously
because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right
hand shall teach thee terrible things. 5 Thine arrows are
sharp in the heart of the king’s
enemies; whereby the people fall under thee. 6 Thy throne, O
God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is
a right sceptre. 7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness
above thy fellows. 8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and
aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have
made thee glad.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery
trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto
you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s
sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad
also with exceeding joy. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ,
happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon
you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is
glorified. (1st Peter 4: 12-14, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Divine Anger at Harvest? (05/26/2019); Sabbath
Acknowledges Divine Personhood? (05/14/2018); Chocolate Bunnies!
Easter Eggs! (04/18/2017); Why An Easter Season? (04/19/2017); On
Wearing Sports Jerseys? (11/20/2015); Spring-training (04/11/2014);
Kill the Blog Writer! (04/12/2014); Will GOD Bless My Team?
(12/31/2012); Put Every Man His Sword By His Side (01/01/2013)
While
Christian belief is to be firm, grave, and sober, believers are not
to be dark, depressing, morbid, and scary. It is no sin, and it is
not wrong to work hard, to become excellent, to be pleased with your
own performance, and to seek fair and meaningful incentives, payment
and wages along with correct measures of respect and support.
However, many, today, pursue goals of becoming outstanding,
prominent, and special on the basis of covetousness, deceit, envy,
and exaggerated pride. The greater part of their lifestyle and daily
routines may be devoted to accomplishing objectives, and measuring up
to standards that are not shared by family, friends, and others, and
that they may experience as attacks, unfair criticism, judging
others, and thrusts against themselves. Ones determination, focus on
personal goals, practice that results in growth, and adhering to
self-discipline should provide great satisfaction, yet, lasting joy,
happiness, and success will continue to be elusive. The working of
appetite, desire, lust, passion, and sensuousness come and go, so to
speak, and emerge as displays from ones flesh that can only be brief
and episodic. Genuine joy abides, is organic (part of what and who
you are), and is unending; even so, joy, may be denied, dismissed,
ignored, neglected and unseen. There must be a correct
acknowledgment of divinity as the origin and source of joy through
endowments and operations of spirit content imparted from divine
fullness. Joy shared within the Godhead may appear among men as
cheerfulness; comfort during bereavement; dancing; discovery;
ecstasy; forgiveness; healing of depression and melancholy;
inebriation; jumping for joy; laughter; newness; receiving and
speaking truth; remembering; recovery; restoration; music and song.
Consider the following that uses language from the Bible:
(1.)
Psalms 100: 1-5, King James Version (KJV): 1 Make a joyful noise
unto the LORD, all ye lands. 2 Serve the LORD
with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3 Know ye
that the LORD he is God: it is he
that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his
people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with
thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful
unto him, and bless his name. 5 For the LORD
is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth
endureth to all generations.
(2.)
Nehemiah 8: 8-11, KJV: 8 So they read in the book in the law of
God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to
understand the reading. 9 And Nehemiah, which is the
Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that
taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy
unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For
all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. 10 Then
he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and
send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this
day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy
of the LORD is your strength. 11 So the Levites
stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is
holy; neither be ye grieved.
(3.)
Psalms 150: 1-6, KJV: 1 Praise ye the LORD.
Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his
power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to
his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet:
praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the
timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high
sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the
LORD.
Praise ye the LORD.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, a selection from the music ministry of
Donnie McClurkin (4.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmOK8MpaeU.)
Even
so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according
to your faith.
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