God’s joy is for all His children. All can have it. Who will allow His word to enter their hearts day by day, and receive and obey by faith what He gives from it. In this eighth chapter of Nehemiah we see the children of Israel gathered together with one accord and one mind, to hear that word anew. As God’s savants expounded it to them, joy filled their hearts, and we read that “ there was very great gladness” (8:17).
Our past may have been barren and full of failure due to our stubbornness and foolishness. But the Lord is willing to forgive all our past, and to restore us to Himself, giving us a new joy – “ The joy of the Lord”. That joy is to be our strength- a joy which begins the moment we turn to him and then multiplies step by step as we go on with Him.
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