3rd Quarter Volume 6
We are all familiar with the last part of Neh. 8:10 where it says, “…for the joy of the Lord is our strength.” Nehemiah was trying to cheer up the people who had just listened to the priests’ teachings on the Law. They were sad and wept under the burden of not keeping the Law. God wanted them to be joyful, not to focus on the impossibility of keeping the Law, but to use His joy to strengthen and draw them closer to Him. One of the greatest values of joy is to help us deal in a healthy way with the difficult, painful, traumatic, or burdensome circumstances that we all experience going through life.
