Joy
will allow us to enjoy His creation, others, and our circumstances with an expression of delight and real, authentic happiness from and with harmony with God and others.
Proverbs 15:13 - A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed
John 15:11 - These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
John 17:13 - But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
Joy can be inside us. It’s in the heart. Joy can fill us.
Do you think joy is in our control? Do you think we can will ourselves to be joyful? The way John makes it sound - is that by reading and believing the truth and gospel of Jesus - we should be joyful.
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