The Joy of The Lord, we have it because Jesus is in us! Your Joy includes so much hope, promise, peace and good things, so much more than we can fully understand.
When we think of joy, we think of delights—things that make our heart sing or “skip a beat.” It’s different than happy, though there’s an element of happiness. It’s something more, something that completes us, something that deeply satisfies our souls.
Where does that delight come from … it starts in The Lord. Your Word tells us that when we trust in You, You delight in us. Your delight then sparks our joy, joy we can experience not only in good times but also in bad or challenging. Your Joy is sustaining, it rescues us when we are in need, it returns us to a place of peace, it brings contentment AND it brings good things. Sometimes those good things are not immediate, but we’ll experience them “down the road.” But, they’re there—should we look for and expect them.
Holy Spirit, please give us wisdom to know and experience Your Joy. Move us to look to You first for joy. Then it will fill our hearts and minds, so much so that it will spill out into the lives of those around us. Your Joy is inexhaustible. We are desperate to experience it.
You tell us “Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Let Your Joy fill us and reflect out of us.
In the Joyous Name of Jesus we pray. Amen
