A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY

January 30🌷🌷

… and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment” (John 12:3)
That was the happiest home in the whole area, because the Lord Jesus Christ had done a great work in the family of Martha, Mary and Lazarus. Every member of the family had become happy because of His grace and power. All who passed by that house could smell sweet fragrance from the house, even to a long distance. That is the desire of the Lord Jesus Christ for every new home, even to a long distance. That is the desire of the Lord Jesus Christ for every new home, the people may come to know Him through them and they themselves may receive great joy. The Lord Jesus Christ came into the world to make our joy full as He says in John 16:24 and also in John 15:11. The desire, plan and purpose of the Lord Jesus Christ in saving us, is to make our joy full. Now, that joy does not depend upon worldly possessions or wordly qualifications. We may be very rich or poor, educated or illiterate, have a high position or no position. We may belong to any country, at our joy can be full under all circumstances, and no man upon the earth can take way our joy from our hearts. Our Lord says in John 16:22, “Your joy no man taketh from you”. Earthly joy can be taken away by our enemies, friends and circumstances but this joy can no man take away from us. People may try by words, deeds and schemes, but they will never succeed. What a joy it is! This joy is for all times, not occasionally. This is Paul’s testimony too as he says in Phil. 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say Rejoice”. Whenever there is a marriage, there is joy. In Jer. 33:11 and Isa. 62:5, the joy of the bridegroom and the bride is compared to heavenly joy. It is not ordinary joy but heavenly joy and God wants every home to have such a joy. But you may say “We don’t have such joy”. In many cases this is true. It is not God’s fault but our fault because we failed to abide by God’s Word. In John 15:7 there is a very simple divine law “If ye abide in me and my words abide in you”. We must be sure that we have everlasting life flowing in us. For every work of life, we have God’s Word for childhood, youth, middle age, and for old age; for sickness, sufferings, trials and other circumstances. God’s word is given to us to overcome every situation and to come out victorious. We can say with apostle Paul as a testimony in Phil. 4:13, “I can do all things in Christ”.