Rejoice

 

I subscribe to The Cavalier Chronicle and on Page 7 of the 12/17/25 edition was a short homily, named Don’t Just Put On A Happy Face. I will write it out and comment on it: “If you seek inner peace, begin by rejoicing in the Lord.”

My response: I approve: inner peace is much more achievable if one is happy and content, and rejoicing about God being in your heart, your soul, your whole being will go a long way to allowing you to feel at peace inside and be at peace inside.

Homily: “God is for us, not against us.”

My response: It is Satan who is against us.

Homily: “God is with us, not some abstraction.”

My response: I am a homespun intellectual, a promoter of rational theology, so thinking abstractly about our relationship with God is vital if we are to know how to live, how to welcome God into our lives. That being said, God being with us and in us is a wonderful, actual state of being, not some abstraction.

Homily: “That alone gives us reason to celebrate and rejoice. Praise God and rejoice in the Lord this week in church. Rejoice in the Lord always. Philippians 4:4-7. ”