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Perhaps few things are more essential for the life we long to live than the essential of joy.  Unexplainable, uncontainable, contagious and outrageous, extreme joy.  I'm not sure if I should try to distinguish between happiness and joy.  But I'm not talking about a pain-free existence. And I'm not talking about getting everything I want, when I want it. I'm talking about something deeper than circumstantial happiness.
 
In Phil. 4:4 he takes this whole joy thing to the extreme. Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again rejoice!  And so he puts joy in the non-optional category.  If we value the Bible, then joy is a command and joylessness is a sin.  Here's what I'm thinking... 

 If joy is a command, than it must also mean that joy is a choice. What if…regardless of your prison, regardless of your hard season, what if you can choose joy? Would that change your life?