My buddy and I are reading through a book on the spiritual disciplines for our accountability meetings. We just read a chapter on joy. In the course of thinking through the chapter, I've decided that I need to get serious about joy, that is, I need to pursue it with purpose.
The older I get, the more clearly I see that it is joy that separates the believer from those who do not follow Christ. Joy should bubble out of the nooks and crannies of our lives like an underground spring that keeps discovering new and unusual ways to reach the surface of the earth. Where do we go to learn joy? The writer of our book suggests a "joy mentor," someone you think of who stands out for their joy. Little kids are another good place to become suffused in joy which knows no boundaries. Certainly, the more we study and delight in the works of God the creator, the more joy we will have in all that he is and does.
2 comments:
Thanks for pursuing Him for joy and not others or "stuff". You make it ever so easy to be the submissive wife and to do so with joy.
Such a sweetie! 25 years has zipped by, but what a gift God has given us hasn't he, this marriage!
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