Friday, January 23, 2009

JOY

How are you sisters?  I know we are all sadden by our sister, Juvena's departure. Should we be joyful now....
 
While i am still working on the fruit of spirit - Love this month, i thought let me just peep into the next chapter on Joy. Dont we all need this now?  I couldnt wait till next month to start reading.
 
John 16:24, God desire that our joy be full but so often affliction, loss, stress, and pain can easily rob our joy away, right sisters?  In John 15, the bible talks about when we remain in Him, abide in Him and His love we will experience true joy, joy to the fullest.  But why am i so easily shaken? The book talks about there is a different between joy and happiness.  Happiness is not spiritual joy.  It is a state of good fortune and prosperity related to and dependent on our circumstances.  If all is going well, we are happy; but as soon as some dark cloud or irritation enters our life, our happiness vanishes.  Happiness can be a false joy, happiness is elusive.  As children of God, we have some great reasons to be joyful in regardless of what circumstances we are in.

Reason 1 : Our joy is permanent.  Because our joy is rooted in our all-loving and unchanging God, our joy is permanent.  In John 16:22 Jesus says that "no one takes your joy away from you."  However, one thing that can rob us of the joy God provides is our failure to walk by the Spirit (Galatians 5:16).  The Holy Spirit causes this fruit to grow in our lives as we abide in Christ and walk in obedience to His ways.

Enough for now, as this so much i can ponder and digest today.

 

Love, Just.

 

 

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