Tuesday... We can rejoice if...

Tuesday... We can rejoice if we are full of faith which leads to being faithful.

Psalm 149:4 - 5 (NLT) says, "For the Lord delights in his people; he crowns the humble with victory. Let the faithful rejoice that he honors them. Let them sing for joy as they lie on their beds."

Too many times we go to bed discouraged about our day. We look back and see where we were not faithful. Maybe we weren't faithful to doing our best at work. We were given the opportunity to do a job that needed to be done but we didn't give our best to doing it. We weren't faithful at work. Maybe we weren't faithful to our spouse, we maybe let our thoughts wander to another person who wasn't our mate, we weren't faithful in our desires.

Maybe we weren't faithful in our health, in what we ate, in our exercise, in being faithful to taking care of this body that God has given to us.

Maybe we weren't faithful in reading the Bible, in spending quality time with God. We weren't faithful in strengthening our faith. We weren't faithful in trusting God to work all things out for good in our lives.

Yes, we are human but God delights in his people and He crowns the humble with victory. And the faithful rejoice that God honors them and they sing for joy as they lie on their beds.

God is so faithful to us and we can rejoice if we are faithful to Him and to those around us. God honors faithfulness. He does. And we can go to bed at night with joy. If you need to, confess your unfaithfulness and ask God to continue to fill you with faith so you will be faithful.

It is so much better to go to bed knowing that we were faithful, isn't it? Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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