Shine: A Life Of Joy
This weeks hook is brought to you from youth camp, so let me get right to the point. There is great confusion in the Kingdom of God between our sense that we are owed happiness, and the consistency of Joy that should be a natural by-product of our faith in Jesus. Honestly, confusing the two would be like confusing a Gator fan with a Seminole fan, or a Bulls fan with a Knight fan, or a Hurricane fan with anyone else. Seriously, happiness is a temporary emotion, joy is a condition of the heart. Happiness is circumstantial, joy is relational. I think there is a direct correlation between our capacity to sustain God's love and the Joy that leaks out of us. An absence of love for sure will lead to an absence of Joy. Why is it we have such a problem sustaining Joy, maybe it's because we spend so much time chasing happiness. Join us Sunday as we continue to look at a life of shining! I promise to make the camp counselors shower before church....they are a
little ripe right now.