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Psalm chapter 33, verse 1.

Shout for joy in the Lord, oh, you righteous.

Praise befits the upright.

I love this verse.

I love the picture it gives of emotion and affection,

jubilation, and celebration that should mark all those who know God.

Now, obviously, this doesn't mean that we are just jumping up and down when we walk through

every circumstance and challenge in this world.

The Psalms are filled with laments and cries for help.

At the same time, the Psalms are also filled with jubilation and celebration, and even sometimes in the hard things we walk through in this world.

I think about in the book of Luke, when Luke records Jesus telling us what to do when people speak all kinds of evil falsely against us on his account, Jesus says leap for joy

when that happens. How do you do that? How do you jump up and down for joy when people are lying

about you? How does that happen? Well, it happens when you know God. That's the whole picture. Praise befits the upright. You who are righteous.

You who are in relationship with God. You have reason to shout for joy in the Lord. So I just want to

ask you, when was the last time you shouted for joy? I shouted. That's what Psalm 33 first one is saying, shout for joy in the

Lord. You think, well, I'm just, I'm not like that kind of outward emotional person. And oh, I think about

the culture where I live, where people go crazy with emotion over a bunch of guys running around on a field

with a pigskin in their hands trying to cross a white line or in similar ways.

And cultures around the world with a ball they're kicking with their feet.

Like if we go crazy crazy our emotions are so

caught up in sports or substitute so many other things in this world how much more should our emotions

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