I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that
your joy may be complete.
John 15:11
In most doctors’
offices, there is a chart picturing levels of pain. The question may come, on a
scale from one to ten, what is your current pain level? Using that scale, what
is your joy level today?
A number one
may mean that you are digging deep to find joy. You may be worried or even sad.
Would a five be sort of joyful or thinking about being joyful? And then there’s the top of the scale. If
that’s where you are, you are bursting with joy, feeling good.
Do you remember the little chorus that
we used to sing? I’ve got the joy,
joy, joy, down in my heart, down in my heart, down in my heart. That’s a ten
for me.
My mother
used to diagnose my joy level. She
would say, “you’ve got your hummer going again.” I realized that I was humming along as I did my chores,
shopped, or drove around. To her, that was a good sign that things were going
okay in my life.
I
rediscovered my hummer recently. I
catch myself humming in my house, while I’m shopping, perhaps driving. A cashier
or another shopper often comments to me, “sounds like you are really
happy”. And so I am.
You may be familiar
with the passage of scripture in Galatians 5:22 which lists fruit of the
Spirit. The first three are love, joy, peace. When I love God first and others
second, a real sense of His peace comes over me. And what is between love and
peace? There it is-JOY! Go for it!
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