Psalm 90:14-15 O satisfy us early with thy mercy, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
We can and we may respond to affliction and evil with rejoicing and gladness every day of our lives, no matter how bad it gets. God’s goodness, mercy, and love is stronger than sin, evil and death. Because we believe that promise we are able to “rejoice in the Lord always,” in every circumstance in which we experience affliction or see evil. Just as Sin and Death is afflicting us both within and without, so also the love and power of God’s goodness and mercy is in us, in the heart and on the lips, and it surrounds us all the time.
Jesus came to take away sin and its afflictions and to replace it with His life and the joy of the Lord. “The joy of the Lord is our strength.” Jesus overcomes. Rejoice!