Christian Joy

Sadness is a big part of earthly life. Countless circumstances and experiences make us sad. At times it seems we are not only passing through a valley of the shadow of death, but actually living in such a valley. As Moses puts it in Psalm 90, our days are characterized by labor and sorrow, by iniquities and sins, by death and dying. Life is a vale of tears. But life for the child of God should not be an unhappy and joyless experience. It ought not be, and need not be, a dismal journey to the...