When you know God during your sojourn on this earth, life has fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement.

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on earth!

~~Elisabeth Elliot

This morning’s prayer and meditation for Sally’s healing comes from Take Heart, Oh God: Riches from the Greatest Christian Women Writers of All Time.

In the classic Dickens tale A Christmas Carol, Scrooge is a stingy old man obsessed with making money. One night, in a dream, he’s shown the horrible future that will be his unless he changes his selfish ways. Delighted for the second chance, Scrooge bounds out of bed and makes amends with his family and employees. After giving his clerk a long-overdue raise, he exclaims, “I’m so happy. I just can’t help it!”

Do you long for that kind of happiness? Does it seem as if joy is always just beyond your grasp? Have you searched but can’t find it?

The truth is, it’s right in front of you, around you, within you. When you know God during your sojourn on this earth, life has fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement.

Ask God to renew such joy in you so that you will be so overflowing you just can’t help it!

Prayer for Meditation

Lord, please overflow my heart with the joy of knowing you.

Scripture for Meditation

You will show me the way of life, granting me the joy of your presence and the pleasures of living with you forever. Psalm 16:11

Music for Meditation

Faithful God 

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