1209A: Let Heaven and Nature Sing
How do you react to life's intrusions? Do you respond with joy or do you wait until you feel joyful. Occasionally, you will feel joyful, and because you feel joyful, you will rejoice. But more often than not, the times you need most to express joy will be times when you feel anything but joyful. It is those times when the Scripture clearly instructs you to rejoice - to express joy by praise to God, and by a quiet, consistent response before men.