Our Greatest Joy
Our Greatest Joy
We all want to be happy. Happy is good. However, happiness is merely based on one’s life circumstances.
True joy is present regardless of the circumstances. True joy does not depend on possessions or feelings.
Jesus prepared his disciples for his death. He told them that he would die, and they would be persecuted. This was awful news to the disciples, but Jesus promised them in John 16, “You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.”
Their sorrow would turn to joy because Jesus would be raised from the dead. Hebrews 12 even tells us that enduring the cross brought Jesus joy because it reunited him with the Father.
True joy happens when WE become united with the Father through Jesus. And once we experience that joy, nothing…NOTHING can take it away.
Sure, we will experience sadness, but even in the midst of sadness there is joy. Our joy only comes through knowing Jesus.
“Though you have not seen him, you love him; though not seeing him now, you believe in him, and you rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy, because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” —1 Peter 1:8-9
With JOY,
Jonathan
We all want to be happy. Happy is good. However, happiness is merely based on one’s life circumstances.
True joy is present regardless of the circumstances. True joy does not depend on possessions or feelings.
Jesus prepared his disciples for his death. He told them that he would die, and they would be persecuted. This was awful news to the disciples, but Jesus promised them in John 16, “You will become sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.”
Their sorrow would turn to joy because Jesus would be raised from the dead. Hebrews 12 even tells us that enduring the cross brought Jesus joy because it reunited him with the Father.
True joy happens when WE become united with the Father through Jesus. And once we experience that joy, nothing…NOTHING can take it away.
Sure, we will experience sadness, but even in the midst of sadness there is joy. Our joy only comes through knowing Jesus.
“Though you have not seen him, you love him; though not seeing him now, you believe in him, and you rejoice with inexpressible and glorious joy, because you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” —1 Peter 1:8-9
With JOY,
Jonathan
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