December 15th, 2020
Family Tree Devotional Series - Week 3 – Joy - Tuesday - Amie Donovan
Jesus, The Name of Joy
1 Peter 1:3-9 (NIV)
Tori Harper released a song called “Resurrect.” Allow me to share the pre-chorus with you today. “This feeling I’m searching for is made up of so much more than happiness. If you can walk on the water, if you can make the blind see, if you can raise from the ashes, then you can resurrect me.” These lyrics express my reason for eternal and internal joy. The joy I feel does not exist because of the right circumstance or the right environment. Rather, the joy I experience exists in the eternal truth of my Lord, Jesus Christ!
I am not looking for a feeling of happiness, but rather a joy that never runs out! The type of joy that is louder than sorrow. The kind of joy that that is bigger than earthly victories. The pure joy that is anchored forever, over being contingent in what the day brings forth! Peter said it beautifully in the following passage:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls”
The joy in my today comes from the God who provided in my yesterday. The joy of my right now comes from the Savior who already redeemed my tomorrow. Joy has a name, and his name is Jesus, my living hope.
Jesus, The Name of Joy
1 Peter 1:3-9 (NIV)
Tori Harper released a song called “Resurrect.” Allow me to share the pre-chorus with you today. “This feeling I’m searching for is made up of so much more than happiness. If you can walk on the water, if you can make the blind see, if you can raise from the ashes, then you can resurrect me.” These lyrics express my reason for eternal and internal joy. The joy I feel does not exist because of the right circumstance or the right environment. Rather, the joy I experience exists in the eternal truth of my Lord, Jesus Christ!
I am not looking for a feeling of happiness, but rather a joy that never runs out! The type of joy that is louder than sorrow. The kind of joy that that is bigger than earthly victories. The pure joy that is anchored forever, over being contingent in what the day brings forth! Peter said it beautifully in the following passage:
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls”
The joy in my today comes from the God who provided in my yesterday. The joy of my right now comes from the Savior who already redeemed my tomorrow. Joy has a name, and his name is Jesus, my living hope.
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