What is sorrow? To begin with, we should know that sorrow is the exact opposite of joy!
Sorrow can actually be bad for your health. It will contract your heart, sink your spirit, and it will cause injury to good health!
We must be aware that sorrow becomes sin when it causes us to blame God or we shirk from our duty to serve God!
Sorrow is also sinful when we are oppressed so much it threatens our lives!
When we reach a point that we have no hope, it means we have forsaken the Lord and abandoned our “faith”!
We must never act like we simply have no hope because we already know that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord!
Since we have these great promises of God which are tokens of God’s favor toward us.
Since we have them as proof of God’s purchase of us with the “Blood of Jesus”.
Since these are declarations of God’s good-will towards His adopted children.
Since these are just part of God’s “Covenant of Grace”.
Since God’s promises are the foundation of our “Faith” and the object of our “Hope”.
Then on these things let’s build all our expectations of God!
God has given us sure directions!
God has provided our means of encouragement!
God has promised to listen to and to answer our prayers!
