THE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR STRENGTH

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I believe most would agree that numerous Christians don't trust God is cheerful." It's a knowledge from Randy Alcorn, in his book Happiness. "In the event that we did trust it, wouldn't we be more joyful?"

It isn't so much that Christians don't need God to be upbeat, it's simply that we are ease back to comprehend the philosophy that God is dependably, basically, and totally glad. We may trust that He is in some cases glad — that sounds good to us. Be that as it may, is God dependably, basically, and totally upbeat at the center of his being?

That is an inquiry that we experience serious difficulties comprehension, and a standout amongst the most widely recognized inquiries we get in the Ask Pastor John inbox: If God is so glad, for what reason does He appear to be so furious in the Bible?

It's a real issue for us to manage, however under the surface it uncovers our abnormal religious free-thought about God's bliss. How we answer the inquiry will decide everything about how we see the Christian life — and how we scan for blessedness.

On the off chance that we don't grasp the joy of God, we imperil three valuable substances in our own lives.

• Your delight lays on God's euphoria.

In a fallen world, reviled and made vain at such a large number of focuses, we are in a general sense miserable and inclined to long sessions with despondency. We are made "glad" by having stuff, getting endowments, or feeling like we have a place in a gathering.
A distinct difference, God is cheerful inside himself. As Aquinas said so plainly, "God is joy by his substance: for he is cheerful not by procurement or cooperation of something different, but rather by his pith. Then again, men are glad by cooperation."
We read our procured bliss onto ("God will at last be cheerful when X, Y, and Z all go his direction"). We think God is simply glad by cooperation — simply like us.

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However, God is satisfaction. Euphoria is basic to his triune nature. To discover God is to discover the wellspring of all euphoria, so perfectly and basically put by Augustine: "Trailing God is the craving of bliss; to achieve God is joy itself." We take an interest in happiness when we achieve the quintessence of all satisfaction: God himself.
Or then again take it from a standout amongst the most watchful scholars of our age: "God is basically honored and glad" (Richard Muller, 3:382).

The establishment for this point is laid in 1 Timothy 1:11, where Paul lauds "the good news of the radiance of the favored God." God is basically honored. His blessedness, His satisfaction — is key to his wonder. This content demonstrates to us that God's expressive brilliance is basically connected to his inward euphoria. God's glory is his emanating bliss, and that satisfaction is the thing that He guarantees to us. His blessedness and magnificence pull in the choose to him. God conveys His magnificence as shafts that wear out from the strong, rocket-fuel brilliance of His between Trinitarian euphoria.

See this fact, and grasp it, and your life will discover an unfathomable length of time of euphoria fuel for this life — and the following one.

• God truly delights in you.

When we accept that God is in a general sense furious, and all the while realize that we are nothing exceptional — not one of a kind or unprecedented in our administration — we can't trust how on earth (or in paradise) the God of the universe would sing over us his tune of pleasure (Zephaniah 3:17).
In what capacity can a heavenly God get a kick out of me?

It was a minister named Henry Donald Maurice Spence (1836– 1917) who made a point I can't overlook: "God is joyous to the point that he discovers satisfaction even in us."
Let that land for a minute. God's melody of euphoria over his defended youngsters isn't only the aggregate of the delight we draw in from him; it's additionally the augmentation of his bottomless bliss exponentially conveying everything that needs to be conveyed out finished us. Euphoric individuals all the more effectively express bliss, similarly as God joys to celebrate over his kids, since he is basically cheerful.

• The joy of God is the quality you require.

The content on this point is a natural one, however one we don't stop to consider all the more painstakingly. "The delight of the Lord is your quality" (Nehemiah 8:10). Regardless of whether the "delight of the Lord" here alludes for the most part to the delight He has in Himself, or to the delight He gives us, we have no genuine any desire for bliss or quality except if God is upbeat (John 15:11).

God does not give us any euphoria outside of the delight he has in himself as of now. Which implies, God's bliss is our quality.
It's an amazing point conveyed to Nehemiah and a people who were attacked by war, debilitated by uncertainties, and continually helped to remember their own delicacy.

What's more, this is the place we discover our quality: forever, for torment, for preliminaries, for marriage, for tyke raising, for missions, for everything. The quality we requirement for this life is found in the basic delight of God.
You will never be profoundly more grounded than your God is glad. God's bliss is our quality. Settle it scripturally. God is basically upbeat inside himself.

GOD BLESS YOU