OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL
LET THERE BE LIGHT 4
20TH JANUARY, 2022
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Exodus 9-11
READ: Esther 8:15-16
15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
16 The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.
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MEMORISE:
“ For his anger endureth but a moment, in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night; but joy cometh in the morning ." -Psalm 30:5
THE MESSAGE:
There is a correlation between light and joy just as there is between darkness and sorrow. “Let there be light” can therefore mean “Let there be joy”. There is no joy in darkness; light produces joy unspeakable, full of glory. However, joy is in categories.
There is ordinary joy as we read in our memory verse today. In our Bible reading today we also read about the joy of God’s people when the darkness of wickedness and hatred that arose against them from Haman were quashed.
There is also great joy according to (1 Chronicles 29:9): Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the Lord: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.
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In the Scripture above we learn one secret of the great joy of the people. This secret lies in the fact that they offered to the Lord their substance, their praise, willingly and with perfect hearts. Another lesson is that King David also rejoiced with great joy, which means that great joy is not determined by position, the amount of wealth or level of influence.
Both the king and the ordinary people experienced great Joy. There is, however, another category of joy and that is exceeding great joy.Matthew 2:10 tells of the exceeding great joy of wise men who were searching for the newborn Saviour of the world. It says “When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy”.
When you discover the Person of Jesus Christ the Saviour, your joy will be unspeakable and exceedingly great. This is also called the joy of salvation.
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Peter
the Apostle described this kind of joy thus, “But rejoice, Inasmuch
as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, that, when his glory
shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy” (1
Peter 4:13).
Sorrow is the opposite of joy and it characterises the life of those who are not born again. Beloved, do you desire joy? Then get out of the darkness of this world of sin and embrace Jesus Christ – the Light of this world.
In John 8:12, Jesus says “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
PRAYER POINT
If you want unspeakable and exceedingly great joy, come out of the darkness of this world of sin and embrace Jesus Christ the Light today.
DO HAVE A BLESSED DAY
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