How Gently, Surely, Holy/Wholly, Purely...Joy

Rom.8:37

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

Yes! A sunrise decorated daybreak's skies today!

Something akin to joy/spring fever surged through me as I drank it in

which got me to contemplating joy...

then lo, and behold! it was the topic of today's devotion

from My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

How gently joy does not dismay

Its source, like a wellspring

Of blush and gold to counter gray

That life is bound to bring

How surely joy restores the soul

Amidst much creature care

To cheers us on toward the goal

Of joy beyond compare

How holy/wholly, joy clings to God’s word

As sorrow’s billows toss

While hope’s anchor abides, secured

In the pow’r of the cross

How purely joy assuredly brims

To bind grim wounds of grief

And stir a symphony of hymns

From worship’s weathered sheaf

How gently joy anoints the shores

Where often teardrops flow

For we are more than conquerors

Through God who loves us so

© Janet Martin