Loved what my pastor had to say about joy last week:
So many starving souls have tasted religion and concluded that Christianity is all about sucking lemons and renouncing pleasure! It’s one thing to reject Jesus intelligently; it’s another to reject Him stupidly! “You reject me because you want joy?! You don’t even know. There are reasons to reject Me – this isn’t one of ‘em!”
-Pastor Bruce Wersen
“Joy is the serious business of Heaven.” ~ C. S. Lewis
Isaiah 55:12 – “You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.”
Out of Eden 