Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound!
They walk, O LORD, in the light of Your countenance.
Psalm 89:15
Our nature is not to be joyful. We humans love to complain and wallow in the pit of self-pity.
It's much like a blue bug light. Don't the bugs see that their friends got fried by the blue light? Even as they are flying towards the light and their friend just in front of them gets friend, they march on towards the light despite the fatal danger. Likewise, we march on towards the pit of self-pity despite the fact that we have NEVER seen self-pity work for anyone.
In contrast, how much better is life when you can tune your ear to hear God's synphony of grace? When you can walk in awareness of the pit of self-pity and keep your distance from it, you can experience joy!
So how do we tune our ears to Him rather than the sound of the blue light zapping our friends? We do this by fixing our eyes on Him, by praising God for what he has done for us despite ourselves.
Praising him yields joy whereas self-pity yields destruction.
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