This year I believe God is going to make me more joyful. Becoming more joyful is a great resolution...
1. Joy is completely in His will; He wants for me to be filled with joy.
2. Joy is the perfume of God in the world. When all of one's circumstances point to depression and joy is found, God is present.
3. Joy is an impossible state to create or maintain without Him...He must create and maintain my joy or it won't happen. My resolution must be met in total reliance/dependence on Him, which is also completely in His will.
Of course, two of the first three verses I come to on joy are in the context of suffering (Heb. 12: 1,2; James 1: 2). This reminder brings me back to the darkest times of my life and how His presence, in the absence of any other comfort, was most real. I'm not looking forward to the pain, but since pain is inevitable I am glad that joy is at the other end of it!
Pray that God makes me more joyful!
Doug
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