Finding Your Joy

 

 

Jesus' prayer for us is that we find unity in purpose. He says, “I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. To be captured by Christ throughout your years on this planet and for eternity is to know joy. To believe that nothing can separate you from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord is to know joy. You believe that as the basic underpinning for your existence and you can only be flooded with joy!

Even when your body is aching and even when you have had bad news and even when you are depressed, you grab hold of that promise, it doesn’t wipe away all of the darkness of life, but it enables you to know that a light shines brightly in the darkness. Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark: sometime, when you haven’t anything else to do, think back to the times when things went wrong, yet came out right.

There was once a man so despondent, his spirit so torn up by care and worry that he decided to end it all. He started to walk across the city to a bridge, from which he planned to jump. However, as he walked, he made another decision. He said to himself, “If, on the way, I should meet someone with a friendly disposition, someone whose manner would bring a ray of hope into my life, I will turn back.” End of story. We don’t know whether the poor man jumped or not. But the story begs this question: If, while walking toward the bridge, that man had met you, what would he have done? Would he have found joy in you? That is the question.

Go with God,

Pastor Qualley