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I am often struck by the many acts of selfless service I see going on around Grace. There are so many types of ministries and service that most of us either don’t see or perhaps we take for granted. No praise. No glory. Just quiet service. You selfless servants know who you are and I want to commend you as worthy examples.

It is a strange thing, but not new, that after great deliverance comes grumbling. We all do it – all the way back to the beginning. The Israelites had just walked through the sea on dry ground. They had sung the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, rejoicing in the Lord who triumphed gloriously over the horse and his rider. Then, after only three days into the wilderness, their lips filled with grumbling.

With a verse like this, it’s not much of a secret the internal battle I’m fighting at this moment. How we must fight our entrenched tendencies! I remind myself today that it is no great feat to return anger for anger, insult for insult, or coldness for coldness. That is the way of the world, the path well-trodden by proud hearts.

I am a huge fan of joy! I unashamedly declare that I desire to have the deepest, longest, most fulfilling joy I can possibly attain. I think this desire is shared by all humans. God hard-wired the pursuit of the greatest joy possible directly into the hearts of mankind because He knew He was the only One that could and would fulfill that desire.

Listening to Pastor Tim preach through this section of 1 Samuel recently, my mind fixed on this verse. As I went back later and meditated on it, I wrote down a few thoughts that the Lord placed in my mind...