The Choice of
Sorrow or Joy of Heart
Isaiah 65:11 states, “Behold my servants shall sing for joy of heart,
but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of Spirit."
This scripture
speaks of the rejection of those who forsaken Jehovah. God had called after them but they had
refused to respond to his admonition. We
are often led to believe by the world that a sinful lifestyle brings happiness. The bill boards and magazine ads show a false
view of a “happy sinner”. We never get a
glimpse of the crying and sorrowfulness of heart of those who reject God and
live a sinful life and fail to live a holy life.
This Scripture
shows an accurate picture or the righteous and the ungodly. The inspired prophet Isaiah boldly explained
some of the results of holy and unrighteous living. He stated that the righteous would sing for
joy because of the inner peace in his or her heart, and that the ungodly would
howl for sorrow of heart. The prophet’s
writing is not a novel idea since the Psalmist stated in the first Psalm that godly
would be blessed and that the ungodly would be like “…chaff which the wind
driveth away.”
Jesus said as
recorded in St. John 7:38, “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said
[Zechariah 14:8], out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” It is no wonder that this blessed musician sings
for joy of heart.
The reason that
the wicked musicians “howl is that corruption, sorrow, vexation of spirit and
sadness flow out of the life of the wicked.
The reason that the righteous musicians are blessed and “sing for joy of
heart” is that they have an inner peace that flows out of a holy heart life, so
much so, that they have an outer joy when they music unto God.
So, cheer up
musical servants of the Most High God and sing and play with true joy of
heart. Sing for joy because you are spiritually
whole, truly happy and are free from the fractured dreams that come at the end
of the ephemeral pleasures of a sinful life.
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