The emphasis at church from July 3 through August 30 is “Summer in the Psalms.” Along with the weekly messages we are reading through the book of Psalms. The first week took us through Psalms 1-30. I love the songs of the Scriptures and readily dived right in.
As I was reading through Psalm 5, I stopped on two words in verse 11. Those two words are “joy forever.”
“But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them shout for joy forever.” [HCSB]
Other translations say, “let them ever shout for joy,” or “let them ever sing for joy.”
I think I like the “joy forever” translation the most.
Those two words lifted my spirit this morning. As I came upon them, I could almost visualize heaven where the saints of all the ages are shouting for joy around the throne together. It is a joyful shout that will go on throughout eternity.
Our joy will never fade. It will never diminish. There will be nothing there that will threaten it. No one, nothing, will try to silence our joyful singing or shouting. And getting to know God more and more will give us never ending reasons to shout for JOY!
Won’t that be amazing!
