「我再說，你們要喜樂。」－腓立比書4:4
能在主裡喜樂是件多麼美好的事！
也許你曾試過竭力保持喜樂，不久後卻失敗了。別灰心，儘管感覺不到喜樂，似乎沒有泉源自你心中湧出，也沒有安慰和鼓勵，但你仍當堅定持續，仍當喜樂，並「要以為大喜樂」（雅各書1:2）。
即使你落入百般的試煉中，你仍當以此為樂，因為你若讚美，神就得著榮耀。
你覺得天父會讓你舉起得勝的旌旗在前頭吶喊，自己卻躲在後面冷眼觀望嗎？
祂絕不會！聖靈必在你勇往直前時與你同在，祂必使你的心充滿喜樂和讚美，使你裡外得著加力。你該求祂教你如何在主裡喜樂，並且「常常喜樂」。－選
「約在半夜，保羅和西拉禱告唱詩讚美神，眾囚犯也側耳聽他們。」（使徒行傳16:25）
哦！使徒保羅，你真是群羊的表率，你竟能在這種處境中讚美，你的身上也「帶著耶穌的烙印」（加拉太書6:17）：幾乎被石頭打死的記號、三次被棍打傷的痕跡、來自猶太人的195條鞭傷、在腓立比獄中無數的血跡傷痕。
這真是何等夠用的恩典，使你能唱詩讚美，使你在苦難中喜樂！－羅奇
"And again I say, Rejoice" (Phil. 4:4).It is a good thing to rejoice in the Lord. Perhaps you have tried this, and the first time seemed to fail. Never mind, keep right on and when you cannot feel any joy, when there is no spring, and no seeming comfort and encouragement, still rejoice, and count it all joy. Even when you fall into divers temptations, reckon it joy and delight and God will make your reckoning good. Do you suppose your Father will let you carry the banner of His victory and His gladness on to the front of the battle, and then coolly stand back and see you captured or beaten back by the enemy? NEVER! The Holy Spirit will sustain you in your bold advance, and fill your heart with gladness and praise, and you will find your heart all exhilarated and refreshed by the fullness within. Lord teach me to rejoice in Thee, and to "rejoice evermore." --Selected
"At midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them" (Acts 16:25).
Oh, Paul, thou wondrous example to the flock, who could thus glory, bearing in the body as thou didst "the marks of the Lord Jesus"! Marks from stoning almost to the death, from thrice beating with rods, from those hundred and ninety-five stripes laid on thee by the Jews, and from stripes received in that Philippian jail, which had they not drawn blood would not have called for washing! Surely the grace which enabled thee to sing praises under such suffering is all-sufficient grace. --J. Roach
