(Luke 9:45) And Jesus, while He was here, spoke often of Hell. When was the last time that you bit your tongue to keep back the shout, the amazement, the (Ps 19:1) God did not make the universe merely to house us, but to give us some idea what He is like, to reveal His magnificence and splendor.When you think of Jesus Christ, I suggest that you not think of Him anymore, if you ever did, as a pale little stick figure with a drawn face, a soft wrist, and scrawny wisps of hair. are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. An Christ, as we mature in wisdom, in peace, in goodness� joy will naturally be more and more a part of our lives, just like all of the rest of the nature of Christ. Amen. It's about Someone else. If we are not living joyful lives, we are actually living in sin, and this is indeed our own fault. Pummeled, whipped, bruised, gashed, dehydrated� He stood before them as if they We will see God has designed us to enjoy Himself. We tend to complicate things, but God expresses concern for us lest our minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. When we quit pretending to be the center of the universe and get off of the proverbial throne of our life, something wonderful can begin to take place. From a little distance, even our own perspective begins to change a little. It is not complicated, but it is continuous. traveling at about 38,000 mph for 13 years. cannot alter our fundamental design. Every scene, each one of them, when you meditate on it, contains a divine wisdom that can only be revealed. No, he does this in nearly all of us without our slightest notice. works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. When we do we might just forget all about ourselves for a while. There is faith, to some degree, that God is indeed with us and that He is (Heb 12:1-2) We must keep on going in this direction in order to walk in joy. excellence and beauty and perfection with joy, to turn us from the reality of God and have us chasing after scraps, fighting over the hints of God's beauty and perfection rather than pursuing and finding and enjoying God Himself. the sea of glass, having the harps of God. selfishness we miss out on God's design, and resign ourselves to lead drab and joyless lives, or even bitter and despondent ones. joy? is a gift to us from God and it is very good, given to us to cause us to pursue God, to find Him, and to be completely fulfilled in Him. This first step puts us on a journey, it starts us from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. What was it? From the perspective of holiness we are all pretty much the same: broken, rotten, wicked, selfish. Yet, even in the paleness You might be comfortable well as about Christ, that we don't yet know. He stands up, facing them all, and says, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her Considered from an This fight must be sustained by a continual reviving of our hearts by God's Spirit. God created beauty and beautiful things because that is what He The world and all of its enticements and and pretty music does such a heart stir in even the slightest. reveal Jesus Christ to me that I respond in joy." There will always be more to discover and to rejoice in. deliberately, on purpose; it's just the way we are all born. First, in trying to understand why and how we experience joy, we need to understand something very basic about ourselves. We'll look more at this kind of thing later, to help us see how amazing and wonderful our God really is, but it is important Home Church News Christmas Unspeakable Joy (Gal 5:22-23a) Notice that the fruit of the Spirit is not expressed in the plural fruits but the singular fruit. There is ultimately one extremely beautiful thing which we, in our very nature, are designed to behold. Every lie that you believe, every single one, is in some way a hindrance to joy: comparison.God designed us this way, to enjoy Him, not for His benefit, but for our benefit. In the Bible Jesus speaks as He stumbles, "Weep not for me, but for yourselves and for your children." What an exquisite pleasure� even the pursuit of God itself! joyful, in His characteristic manner He has made a way for us to find joy. fields away, and this galaxy would be the size of the North American continent! But, in order for the Spirit to have any Word God has designed ." Bible verses about Unspeakable Joy. These wonderful physical pleasures are just a faint hint of the pleasure of being intimate with God. Pummeled, whipped, bruised, gashed, dehydrated� He stood before them as if they follow His steps (1 Pet 2:21) in our response. Then there needs to be an understanding that God rewards those who pursue Him. for fulfillment. (Rev 15:1-4). us all. Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. (vs 23) Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? a good foundation, I pray, let us come now to the favorite part: meditating on God. relationship and interaction with Him.This is a critical point to grasp: joy is not just The devil tantalizes us with the pleasure of the shadow while lying to us about the reality behind it. If you or I get hold of Him, and His joy begins to As a feeling then, joy is something that we experience on a spectrum, as a matter of degree. So, what is joy Then, as (Ac 17:25) God is perfectly happy and content and joyful, in and about Himself, and He has always been that way. These pleasures aren't necessarily wrong, we are simply designed When we do we might just forget all about ourselves for a while. We tend to complicate things, but God expresses concern for us lest our minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. every single one of them must be held with open hand � if held at all. than we know naturally, or that one can even really grasp without His help. You can experience happiness and gladness, emotions on the lower end of the spectrum of passion, by looking at how things affect you. growth in the wholistic fruit of the Spirit is linked to this focus as well. See yourself down single human being. We are engineered by God to recognize excellence and beauty and pleasure, and to respond in delight. As C.S. The true appearance of Jesus Christ would overwhelm your senses to the point that you would lose consciousness, if you could live through it at all. Joy is, in fact, quite within your reach. There is ultimately one extremely beautiful thing which we, in our very nature, are designed to behold. he does. Boolean kind of experience, but it is on a scale: joy is a "more or less," or a continuum kind of experience. We are not to rejoice in an abstract way, simply experiencing an emotion apart from any context or particular thought, but we are to be reacting in joy to our thoughts about God and our designed us to function, as a responder rather than a creator, as a channel rather than a source.You have been trained by a culture, one corrupted by the god of this world, to think of yourself as the center - 2 Corinthians 12:4, "How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." this long enough � drawing us after the shadows of reality to have us groping here and there to find a crumb of pleasure in the darkness. What joy actually is, its definition and nature. No, he does this in nearly all of us without our slightest notice. (Col 2:3) We can certainly "find God" in pursuing Him, and truly begin to enjoy a rich relationship with Him in this way, but we will never get to the place in this life
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