Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Rejoice !!!




Luke 10:20
says, "Rejoice that your names are written in Heaven!"





Our names are written in Heaven! Secure in the eternal book of God. Secured by the blood of the Lamb. Our names, personally inscribed by the omnipotent hand of God, is known in the glory of heaven, not because of any merit on our part, or success here on Earth, nor popularity; but because of God’s love and grace. And Heaven rejoices over us.

Isaiah 49:16 says, I (Jehovah) have inscribed you on the palms of My hands.
I know Jehovah is speaking through Isaiah to His people Israel there, but “Jehovah is Salvation” ...that’s what the name Jesus (Yehoshua) means. And we know what is imprinted in the palms of Jesus......... our sins!

Our names are in Heaven because God sovereignly chose to set His love on us in eternity past. Then, in His infinite mercy, He effectually called us out of darkness, and into His marvelous light! Why would God do that?
....to demonstrate His love, His mercy, His forgiveness, His grace, His Sovereignty! Although God is righteous in giving me the justice I deserve-- which would have damned me to hell, God’s mercy withholds what I deserve; and then God’s grace gives me what I do not deserve--Heaven. Though my life may appear insignificant, my inheritance is vast. So Paul writes, Rejoice in the Lord always... and he repeats, Again, I say rejoice.
Do we rejoice?

Back in the late 70’s, I was meeting with pentecostals. Some of them are very expressive and unreserved in their “rejoicing.” I hope it’s real. It’s been my experience, though, that most of Christianity is more conservative with emotions. And that’s unfortunate. While watching some programs on TV
(more recently Little League World Series, Connecticut was playing), I sometimes become overwhelmed with joy and tear up. I know, more than one of us here get overwhelmed in the Spirit when remembering our Lord. But then, I would try to suppress it when I should be crying out to God with rejoicing and thanksgiving. There is nothing wrong with weeping.  Jesus wept.  But I’m so “conservative” ...shamefully. I have to first overcome the flesh to express joy and love.

Being in a carnal state we cannot properly express joy in the Lord or love towards Him or one another
the way we should. There is nothing good in the flesh! Rom. 7:19; Gal. 5:17; Matt. 26:41; etc. The “way we should” love, and give thanks, and rejoice - is in the Spirit... in a state of spiritual bliss. Why do you think they call it “cloud nine?” Do we think that in heaven they have to first be overcome with emotions to express joy? I don't think so. I believe that is a constant state of being.  And that should be one of our goals in maturing... rejoicing, thanksgiving, and reverence.

Do you know there is a YouTube thing out there that presumes to “instruct” whoever will listen on “
How” to rejoice in the Lord? If one has to sit in a seminar to learn how to rejoice in the Lord, then one has a religion he is failing in.

John 10:28-30
says, I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone pluck them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand. I and My Father are one.

If we have eternal life and are “in the hands” of Jesus... and
no one can pluck us out, we have occasion to rejoice, and it will come naturally and easily every time we remember Him, which should be ALWAYS. So rejoice--not in temporal circumstances, or in what others think of you, but in what God has promised. We are His, and our name is forever written in Heaven. One day soon, we will hear the Savior call our name to welcome us home: "Enter into the joy of your Lord!"

So,
Colossians 3:1-4 tells us, If then you are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died (to this world), and your (new) life is hidden with Christ in God.  When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

Regardless of earthly circumstances, our names are engraved in Heaven! This should comfort us, and we should be filled with profound, unspeakable joy.

Phil. 4:4
says, Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I say rejoice.

Psalm 118:24 is perhaps a familiar verse about rejoicing...






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