Love - Full of Joy

What's your joy-buster?  Everyone's got one or two or three or four or ....   Sometimes it's one iddy-biddy thing that sends joy a'packing.  Try, try, try as we may, and it just won't come back!

 

One of God’s greatest gifts to His children is His abundant joy.  Hard as we try, it's pert-near impossible to keep; therein lies the problem.  We believe Christ's joy is something we grab hold of and hang on for dear life.  The tighter we hold it, however, the easier it seems to slip away.  Joseph must have been so frustrated when he couldn’t find a suitable place for Mary to deliver the Messiah.  How many times did he hear no-room, no-room, no-room?  When Joseph finally held the child in his arms, he must have known a genuine sense of God's peace.  Oh, when will we learn it’s not how tightly we try to hold His joy, it's how closely we remain to the Joy-Giver.  The arrival of Christ was the descent of perfect and everlasting Joy!  What kind of love?  Love -- Full of Joy!