The Good News – Joy is Free
Here’s Some Good News to Shout From the Mountain Tops
Joy is FREE.
If you have friends who believe they have to earn their salvation somehow, please tell them the good news!!
The time is now.
There is absolutely nothing any of us can do to pay the debt for our sins.
As our Savior, Jesus paid our debt in full.
Jesus promises us in Scripture that if we follow Him, we will have eternal life.
He wouldn’t say it if it wasn’t true, but we have to seek Him.
Tell the World That Joy is Free
We simply can’t keep this divine promise to ourselves. We must tell the world why we have joy and we should look for those opportunities to do so.
That’s love.
Delight in God and Your Heart Will Soar
Fellow Christian Writer, Sara Daigle, wrote an excellent article about this very thing. I wanted to share this encouragement with you. God bless!
Joy is Free
by Sara Daigle
08/02/16
Life is not so much about being loved as it is about loving.
Not so much about being admired as about praising the One worthy of all admiration.
Life is more about filling our hearts with worship than it is about filling our lives with people who make us feel great about ourselves.
Life is good when we realize that joy is free; that happiness is not owed us by others, but joy comes when we realize we get to have it no matter what.
Because our hearts are made to soar.
A gift is always free. We see suffering people full of grace, and blessed people living in misery. If joy wasn’t free, only those with seemingly perfect lives would get to experience it. If joy wasn’t free, others would get to steal it from you. If joy wasn’t free, we would keep trying to hold all things unpleasant at bay. We would succumb to grasping for happiness instead of receiving joy.
Because joy is free, all of us get to share in it. All of us need inner peace, and we all need to be redeemed from things that drag us down and would destroy us.
Life is not so much about surrounding ourselves with happiness as it is realizing that joy surprises us at every turn once we finally cease trying to perfect everything (and everyone) around us so we get to live a happy life.
We begin finding pleasure in the smallest things. We sigh with contentment even though others would wonder why.
Life is rich, life is full once we cease grasping, and accept the gift. Your friends or spouse are free from your expectations to bring happiness to you. No one earns this for you. Jesus hands it to you as from Himself.
This time you won’t bob up and down the waters of your own fulfilled and unfulfilled expectations.
Because in your hands, you will hold your own gift which neither you or others earned for you. And when you feel its worth, you will be loathe to part with it just because something (or someone) failed to make you happy. You are worth more than that, and so is your gift.
Joy is a gift (regardless of circumstances) because the infinite does not rest on the finite.
The finite was created within the infinite. How then can we breathe so deeply of things created and so little of the Creator?
When we are absolutely taken with what always was, presently is, and always will be, we are set free to enjoy the beautiful.
Joy is entirely different than the happiness one might feel from a great circumstance. Happiness fades; joy abides through thick and thin.
Joy is the soul enamored, enraptured, and set back in awe of a Being Who spells INFINITY.
The finite rather melts in light of all He is to the heart. When the Infinite abides, the finite finally sinks to where it belongs and makes way for the soul to rejoice in the higher, greater, better, wiser, and always good.
Yes, this is God, and the joy He brings is enduring, not contingent on people, places, or things. Hold it, share it, feast on it!
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