Pure Joy!

Feelin’ The Joy in 2017!

Greetings & Blessings Faithful Followers of Team Mission Access!  While we breathe a huge sigh of relief that our collective Christmas craziness is winding down and set our hearts on a hopefully Happy New Year ahead, let’s consider something that may have may have gone MIA this season:  JOY.

So let’s unwrap Joy, shall we?  James 1:2-4 NASU says:

“Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”

The Key Verse in that passage is:  Consider It All Joy.  The NIV says we are to Consider it PURE joy.  Each of those words is a Bible Study in itself!  But’s Go For The JOY.

Doing just a simple concordance search reveals a Whole Lotta Joy in the Bible, especially in the Old Testament books of Psalms and Isaiah.  But it is only in the New Testament that a more excellent Joy is revealed:

John 15:11 NASU

“These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.

Wow!  Check it out!  God through His mind-blowing Gift of His Son & Our Savior Jesus Christ gives us full access to His uniquely personal Joy that Lives 24/7 IN All who Believe.

Now THAT’S a Happy New Year!

In His Accessible Grace,

Linda

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