With Gladness of Heart...

Are you one of those people who like to skip ahead in books...hand raised right here! I am truly a look aheader! :) I even do with my devotion book!

Today I looked ahead at tomorrow's devotion, and I thought that I would just share it on here this morning:

Deuteronomy 28:47-48  Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

And He, Who in another place says that He draws us with lovingkindness, says now that He shall put a yoke of iron upon our neck.
So dullness of spirit is sin; there is no way out of that conclusion. I think we sometimes call it by other names; "sensitiveness" is one of its pet names; and so we take things by the wrong handle, turn a dull face instead of a glad one on the  rough and smooth of life, depress others and make it harder for them to be good. May the Lord deliver us from all this, and show us this dullness of spirit for what it is--ungratefulness, selfishness, sin. There will be sorrow; the care that cometh daily (2 Cor.11:28); battle wounds may knock us out; but we need never go under in spirit. May He keep us all and make us a joyful company, each one of us like that servant of His (the mother of Bishop Moule) "whose feet brought light into a room". Let us ask for that blessed gift, "joyfulness and gladness of heart for the abundance of all things".

Taken from Edges of His Ways by Amy Carmichael

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