Light of Joy

Psa 27:6  And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: 
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing 
praises unto the LORD. 

I love the little character in the Winnie the Poo cartoon series, Eeyore. In contrast to 
the optimistic Poo, Eeyore has a way of taking the brightest and loveliest day and 
somehow bringing a cloud of depression and sadness into it. Wherever he goes there is 
this dark feeling that if a storm is not already pouring down, it is most certainly on the 
way. He walks around with his own personal cloud hovering above his head. 
What takes place under that cloud is that everything looks different in the dark. 
Because he lives in a constant state of deep, dark depression, it is impossible for him to 
see the beauty that is really right there before him, plain as day. That favorite coat in the 
closet is transformed into a terrible monster once the light is turned out. So, that very 
person or situation in life that has the greatest potential in blessing will be turned into a 
blight and an overwhelming difficulty in the skewed perception of darkness. 
For the one who desires to see things as they really are, there really must be a little 
light shown on the subject in question. For the head to be lifted up in the middle of an 
enemy host, there must be an ability to see beyond the limits of depression's clouded 
shadows. In the light of joy, everything that once seemed so foreboding becomes means 
of getting to that place of promise. In Christ, all things become new, and we are able to 
live a glory-to-glory life in the 'joy unspeakable and full of glory' that His presence 
brings. 

5/30/06