
Walking through Luke: Joy
Before Mary could tell her relative of what happened, Elizabeth’s son in her womb leaped out of joy.
Before Mary could tell her relative of what happened, Elizabeth’s son in her womb leaped out of joy.
Proverbs 9 challenges readers to see themselves as simple ones who are being called to by both wisdom and folly. The voice of Christ and the beckoning of sin each call to us with an invitation to sit at their table.
We have done nothing to impress God that He would choose us. But because He has chosen to pour out His grace on us, we are called to obey, but also obey in joy.
God desires that we experience the fullness of joy in Him by setting our eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t put your faith and hope in Jesus, you won’t know the fullness of His joy either.
When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
It’s not that we can’t find joy in other things. We should find joy in all the gifts of God. It is that if we are not satisfied in God first then we won’t have complete joy in anything.
When we grow and cultivate our understanding of the goodness of God, when we grow in humility, when we grow in thankfulness, when we run first to God for refuge, we will be kept and safeguarded and preserved. And joy abounds from this place.
God has given us so much, just look around. Don’t let today be just another day.
Before Mary could tell her relative of what happened, Elizabeth’s son in her womb leaped out of joy.
Proverbs 9 challenges readers to see themselves as simple ones who are being called to by both wisdom and folly. The voice of Christ and the beckoning of sin each call to us with an invitation to sit at their table.
We have done nothing to impress God that He would choose us. But because He has chosen to pour out His grace on us, we are called to obey, but also obey in joy.
God desires that we experience the fullness of joy in Him by setting our eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t put your faith and hope in Jesus, you won’t know the fullness of His joy either.
When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
It’s not that we can’t find joy in other things. We should find joy in all the gifts of God. It is that if we are not satisfied in God first then we won’t have complete joy in anything.
When we grow and cultivate our understanding of the goodness of God, when we grow in humility, when we grow in thankfulness, when we run first to God for refuge, we will be kept and safeguarded and preserved. And joy abounds from this place.
God has given us so much, just look around. Don’t let today be just another day.
Before Mary could tell her relative of what happened, Elizabeth’s son in her womb leaped out of joy.
Proverbs 9 challenges readers to see themselves as simple ones who are being called to by both wisdom and folly. The voice of Christ and the beckoning of sin each call to us with an invitation to sit at their table.
We have done nothing to impress God that He would choose us. But because He has chosen to pour out His grace on us, we are called to obey, but also obey in joy.
God desires that we experience the fullness of joy in Him by setting our eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t put your faith and hope in Jesus, you won’t know the fullness of His joy either.
When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
It’s not that we can’t find joy in other things. We should find joy in all the gifts of God. It is that if we are not satisfied in God first then we won’t have complete joy in anything.
When we grow and cultivate our understanding of the goodness of God, when we grow in humility, when we grow in thankfulness, when we run first to God for refuge, we will be kept and safeguarded and preserved. And joy abounds from this place.
God has given us so much, just look around. Don’t let today be just another day.
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