Seek to cultivate a buoyant joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
Joy
Brian Simmons
We can be optimistic, positive, enthusiastic when we know the process of God is at work in us, changing our very difficulties into miracle grow for our soul! James said, “Consider it PURE JOY when you face trials of any kind!”
C. S. Lewis
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to rejoice as much as by anything else.
Seth Dahl
Joy is not only what you get when you win, it’s what He gives so you win. In Ps 2, 37, and 59, right in the heat of struggle, God is seen as laughing in heaven. Why? It’s His joy that gives us strength. When He laughs during our battles, He is imparting His strength to us. He doesn’t want us fighting in weakness or our own strength. No matter what you’re going through, take some time today to simply look to the God of joy. Once you do, your only job is to then do what you see Him doing.
William Blake
January 12, 2020
Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.
Frederick Buechner
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Charles R. Swindoll
Isn’t God the one who urges us to “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord”? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter… I’ve seen folks quote verses like “Rejoice in the Lord always” while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.
Steve Brown
If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.
Theophane Venard
Be merry, really merry. The life of a true Christian should be a perpetual jubilee, a prelude to the festivals of eternity.
Mark Buchanan
Laughter—just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.