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Our Daily Bread - Wednesday, December 30, 2015
by RBC Ministries

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MIXED EMOTIONS

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Even in laughter the heart may sorrow, and the end of mirth may be grief.
-Proverbs 14:13

THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:
Zechariah 13-14
Revelation 21

For Marlene and me, "mixed emotions" precisely describe our wedding. Don't take that the wrong way. It was a wonderful event that we continue to celebrate more than 35 years later. The wedding celebration, however, was dampened because Marlene's mom died of cancer just weeks before. Marlene's aunt was a wonderful stand-in as the "mother of the bride," but, in the midst of our happiness, something clearly wasn't right. Mom was missing, and that affected everything.
That experience typifies life in a broken world. Our experiences here are a mixed bag of good and bad, joy and pain - a reality that Solomon expressed when he wrote, "Even in laughter the heart may sorrow, and the end of mirth may be grief"(Proverbs 14:13). The merry heart often does grieve, for that is what this life sometimes demands.
Thankfully, however, this life is not all there is. And in the life that is to come, those who know Christ have a promise: "God will wipe away every tear from their eyes;there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away"(Revelation 21:4). In that great day, there will be no mixed emotions - only hearts filled with the presence of God!-Bill Crowder
Peace! peace! wonderful peace,
Coming down from the Father above,
Sweep over my spirit forever, I pray,
In fathomless billows of love. - Cornell

For the Christian, the dark sorrows of earth will one day be changed into the bright song of heaven.

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