When you're looking toward eternity, it'll help you embrace painful circumstances now.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

And I know that time is short and eternity is long and how foolish it is to waste the little bit of time I have here on this earth.

Pining and moaning and resenting and resisting the very things God wants to bring into my life

to help me like Jesus, to help fit me for eternity.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Baldwin, author of Choosing Gratitude.

For June 10th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Music June 10th, 2022. I'm Dana Gresh. Okay, let's be honest. How would your family, or those you spend the most time with,

describe you today? Would they use the word joy? You can learn to be joyful even when your circumstances

are painful or uncertain. Nancy will show you how continuing in the series facing the future

with joy. As I was reading some of the comments on the blog not too long ago, there was one

sentence that really jumped out at me, something that one of our readers posted.

And she was a younger woman who was despairing of ever being a true woman, a godly woman,

and she said this, most older women I know are anxious and joyless.

That's what I said. Mm, ouch. Because I now consider myself, I think rightly so,

an older woman, not an old woman, but an older woman. And when I read that, I thought,

oh, that's true. How often is that true of me? Anxious and joyless. And what a sad thing for a younger woman today to be looking at us older Christian women and saying most of the older Christian women I know are anxious, uptight, and joyless. One of the mandates of the gospel is to be people of joy. It's not an option. It's a mandate.

1st Thessalonians 5 verse 16, rejoice always. Psalm 5 verse 11, let all take refuge in you, rejoice.

Let them ever sing for joy. Serve the Lord with gladness, Psalm 100 tells us.

Psalm 113 talks about a woman being a joyful mother of children. And of course we know that the fruit

of the spirit includes, among other things, joy. It's a mandate of the gospel to be women of joy. Now, we're not talking about shallow,

hollow, cheap joy that is dependent on what's going on around us, but we're talking about that

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