Rejoice in the Lord, O You Righteous

The heart of a Christian is designed by God, in the New Birth, to rejoice in Him always. We are exhorted to this wonderful duty in the book of Philippians, chapter 4, verse 4, when the apostle tells us to "rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say, rejoice". Our modern word "rejoice" appears in its origin to be made up of two parts, "re", which means again, and "joy" which means to lift up your thoughts in happiness and confidence. In our case, we are rejoicing in the One who has made us, and has saved us from all of our sins. We want to walk with our God continually rejoicing in the goodness and power of His grace. We will be considering what our God has done for us through Jesus Christ our Lord; the reasons why we ought continually to rejoice in Him.