“We will be glad and rejoice in thee.” 
              — Song of Solomon 1:4

We will be glad and rejoice in thee. We will not open the gates of the
year to the dolorous notes of the sackbut, but to the sweet strains of
the harp of joy, and the high sounding cymbals of gladness. “O come,
let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise unto the rock of
our salvation.” We, the called and faithful and chosen, we will drive
away our griefs, and set up our banners of confidence in the name of
God. Let others lament over their troubles, we who have the sweetening
tree to cast into Marah’s bitter pool, with joy will magnify the Lord.
Eternal Spirit, our effectual Comforter, we who are the temples in
which thou dwellest, will never cease from adoring and blessing the
name of Jesus. We WILL, we are resolved about it, Jesus must have the
crown of our heart’s delight; we will not dishonour our Bridegroom by
mourning in his presence. We are ordained to be the minstrels of the
skies, let us rehearse our everlasting anthem before we sing it in the
halls of the New Jerusalem. We will BE GLAD AND REJOICE: two words with
one sense, double joy, blessedness upon blessedness. Need there be any
limit to our rejoicing in the Lord even now? Do not men of grace find
their Lord to be camphire and spikenard, calamus and cinnamon even now,
and what better fragrance have they in heaven itself? We will be glad
and rejoice IN THEE. That last word is the meat in the dish, the kernel
of the nut, the soul of the text. What heavens are laid up in Jesus!
What rivers of infinite bliss have their source, aye, and every drop of
their fulness in him! Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, thou art the present
portion of thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of thy
preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and
rejoice in thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December
close with gladness in Jesus.

On this day...

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• The day will come when lost man will no longer be loved by God Almighty - 2015
• the hatred of the Holy Ghost all that is not in keeping with God's holiness - 2014
• the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses me from all sin so that God Almighty can see nothing to censure in me - 2014
• the impartation of His absolute perfection - 2014
• thank God for what grace you have; praise him for that degree of holy confidence whereunto you have attained - 2014
• Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more it is exercised with tribulation - 2014
• Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her - 2014
• Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts. We are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body. - 2011