Joy has very little to do with circumstances, rather it is trusting the Father enough to rejoice when the dark clouds cover the soul and joy is hard to find. My dear friends, keep choosing joy by trusting your Father no matter what your day may bring, He is faithful to His children!
I love the Hebrew word for “rejoice”, it means to spin around violently with great joy. You make your Father dance! I can share with each of you who trust in your Abba Father, that He is crazy about you. So much so that He dances and sings over you with great joy. You are “Abba’s Joy!” and He is never going to let you go.
Our culture is desperately searching for “joy,” but no matter how many drinks are consumed, drugs used, stuff purchased, sex encountered, no matter how hard we try for the acceptance of others, somehow joy eludes us. Our Father longs for you and me to follow His Son Jesus home to a place filled with “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” I Peter 1:8.
In Nehemiah 8:10 it says, “the joy of the LORD is my strength.” You can translate that, “the joy of the LORD is my everything.” Knowing the Father = Joy and His Joy becomes everything you need.
The Father takes our “YES” to be His servant, and He uses it to unleash His glory through us, as He did through Mary mother of Jesus (Luke 1:38).
