"Rejoice in the Lord always"
This cannot mean "always feel happy" since no one can command someone to always have a particular emotion. To rejoice is treasure a thing, to assess its value to you, to reflect on its beauty and importance until your heart rests in it and tastes the sweetness of it. "Rejoicing" is a way of praising God until the heart is sweetened and rested, and until it relaxes its grip on anything else it thinks that it needs.
Tim Keller, Counterfeit gods.
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