Finding Joy in Praise | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | April 10, 2021
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🗓️ 10 April 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.1 | Today's reading titled Finding Joy in Praise was written by Patricia Rabin. |
| 0:15.9 | When the famous British writer C.S. Lewis first gave his life to Jesus, he initially resisted praising God. In fact, he called praise a stumbling block. His struggle was in the suggestion that God himself demanded it. Yet Lewis finally realized it is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates his presence to his people. |
| 0:42.2 | Then we, in perfect love with God, find joy in him no more separable than the brightness a mirror receives from the brightness it sheds. |
| 0:54.1 | The prophet Habakkuk arrived at this conclusion |
| 0:57.3 | centuries earlier. After complaining to God about evils aimed at the people of Judah, |
| 1:03.5 | Habakkuk came to see that praising him leads to joy, not in what God does, but in who he is. Thus, even in a national or world crisis, |
| 1:17.0 | God is still great. As the prophet declared in Habakkuk chapter 3, though the fig tree does not bud, |
| 1:25.9 | and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop |
| 1:30.5 | fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle |
| 1:36.9 | in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will be joyful in God, my Savior, he added. As C.S. Lewis realized, the whole world |
| 1:50.5 | rings with praise. Habakkuk, likewise, surrendered to praising God always, finding rich joy in the one |
| 2:00.1 | who marches on forever. |
| 2:08.6 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Habakkuk chapter 3, |
| 2:14.6 | verse 6 and verses 16 through 19. |
| 2:18.5 | He stood and shook the earth. |
| 2:22.2 | He looked and made the nations tremble. |
| 2:26.2 | The ancient mountains crumbled and the age-old hills collapsed, but he marches on forever. |
| 2:40.0 | And now, verses 16 through 19, I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound, decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. |
| 2:48.0 | Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us. |
| 2:54.6 | Though the fig tree does not bud, and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails |
| 3:01.5 | and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen, and no cattle in the stalls. Yet I will rejoice in the |
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