Salem Baptist Church

It can be really hard to be cheerful these days. Our thoughts are often fear based and fretful, full of gloom and despair. We worry and fret over life, and loss and often struggle to find real joy. Increasingly we think of joy only as a place of escape… something that we can find on vacation or at the ballgame, but not in the drudgery of an ordinary day. But the author of Psalm 92 seems to be claiming that he has found a secret to lasting and steady joy. Is it possible to be truly deeply content in mind and satisfied in life? This state of being he connects to God’s goodness. That’s worth a closer look for us today!