FAITH CAPSULE: The word of God is the source of Joy.
John 15
Among ways of describing the word of God are: livewire which is bright spark, sustenance is the provision, and wellspring is source. Indeed, the word of God is the only way to have life. Jesus is the way (John 14:6), Jesus is the word of God (John1:1). Jesus confirmed in His word, “…I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.”
Do you receive and believe the word of God into your heart?
If yes, there is a need for you to consciously live life in the joy of the Lord. In times of today’s instability and wicked world, the joy of the Lord is the strength to those who have it.
Knowing Jesus (the word of God) is the source of joy that gives stability and strength.
Isaiah 33:6 stated clearly, “Wisdom and knowledge will be the stability of your times and the strength of salvation…”
There is a need to understand and have knowledge that Jesus (the word of God) became for us wisdom from God. (1 Corinthians 1:30) Without doubt, the joy of the Lord is the strength to those who have it.
Do you have it and know that the word of God is the joy of the strength in this instability, unstable wicked world.
Jesus, the living word of God repeatedly stated out that having joy is in His spoken word for any who makes the choice to receive His word in them. Jesus stated in John 15:11, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.” He emphasized again in John 17:13, “But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” All of His words in the world are the source of Joy. One with His joy is bound with strength that surpasses all understanding.
Do you know that His word is the source of joy that replace sorrow with strength in the life of those who have it?
At a point of confronting challenges for the Israelites Nehemiah spoked the word of comfort to encourage strength in the place of sorrow stating, “…Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10)
Are you meditating the word of Jesus that your joy may be full?
Those who meditate the word of God shall know the joyful sound. Psalm 89:15 buttressed, “Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance.” Is it direction you need? Is it preservation you desire? If you begin to pay attention in your meditation for the joyful sound, direction and preservation shall position you for blessing.
Prayer for today: Ask for the understanding and know to be engaging the joy of the Lord.