Where is JOY?
Oh so ALIVE!
Just look at the CROSS.
“You were dead because of your sins and
because your sinful nature was not yet cut away.
THEN GOD made you alive with CHRIST,
and HE forgave all our sins.
HE canceled the record of the charges against us
and took it away by nailing it to the cross”
(Colossians 2:13-14).
Where is JOY?
Oh so ALIVE.
Just look at the GRAVE~
"HE is not here, for HE has risen,
just as HE said [HE would]. Come! See the place where HE was lying"
(Matthew 28:6).
Where is JOY?
Oh so
ALIVE
because of the
CROSS
and
because of the
GRAVE,
JOY IS HERE~
"Though you have not seen HIM, you love HIM; and though you do not even see HIM now, you believe and trust in HIM and you greatly rejoice and delight with inexpressible and glorious joy..."*
Where is JOY?
Tucked deep into
BELIEVING in the ONE
who is no longer on the CROSS
and no longer in the GRAVE~
"Because you kept on believing,
you’ll get what you’re looking forward to: total salvation"
*(I Peter 1:7-8 ).
Where is JOY?
IN YOU~
"Therefore if anyone is IN CHRIST
[that is, grafted in, joined to HIM by faith in HIM as SAVIOR],
he is a new creature [reborn and renewed by the HOLY SPIRIT];
the old things [the previous moral and spiritual condition]
have passed away.
Behold, new things have come
[because spiritual awakening brings a new life]"
(2 Corinthians 5:17).
Oh JOYFUL JUNE,
living as a
"NEW CREATION"
(listen to the song below)
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