Wednesday... There is joy, if we would only!

Psalm 106:3 (NLT), "There is joy for those who deal justly with others and always do what is right."

Wednesday... There is joy, if we would only!

Psalm 106:3 (NLT) says, "There is joy for those who deal justly with others and always do what is right." And this thought comes out, oh, if we would only.

Now verses 1-2 says, "Praise the Lord! His faithful love endures forever. Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord? Who can ever praise him enough." But we are not God.

Have you noticed that we in ourselves want grace for our actions but justice from others in what they do to us? But here the Psalmist writes, "There is joy for those who deal justly with others" and that is also true for us.

Now later in this Psalm, verses 21-23a says, "They forgot God, their savior, who had done such wonderful things in the land of Ham, such awesome deeds at the Red Sea. So he declared he would destroy them." And God had every right to do it. I mean he made a path through the Red Sea to save them from being killed by the Egyptian army. He had a right and he has a right when it comes to us sometimes in our being unjust with others and not living right.

Verse 23 starts by saying, "So he declared he would destroy them" but the verse continues, "But Moses, his chosen one, stepped between the Lord and the people. He begged him to turn from his anger and not destroy them." And he didn't/

I am here today to remind you and me, "There is joy for those who deal justly with others and always do what is right." Yes, we will be rewarded if we do what is right.

The Message says, "You're one happy man when you do what is right, one happy woman when you form the habit of justice."

Now we do know there are consequences in our being unjust and not doing what is right but there is joy, "There is joy for those deal justly with others and always do what is right." Yes there is a reward.

So let's, verses 1a (MSG). "Thank God! And why? Because he's good, because his loves lasts." And he wants us to live with and share that kind of love. And that is why in Luke 23:34 Jesus said on the cross, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." Yes, God's love lasts, and "There is joy for those who deal justly with others and always do what is right." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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