Advent 3 - Joy
Dec 15, 2024 • Tim Maton
Joy is not happiness – we will say in this season “Happy Christmas” but we are aware that for many around us, it is not a happy season. But it is a season of Joy. True Joy resides not in our circumstances but in God.
In the birth of Jesus, the Joy of the Lord breaks into our world, for the Joy set before him Christ endured the cross (Hebrews 12), in the return of Christ Joy will break out as all fear, pain, and grief is ended.
It is joy in the Lord which enables praise and worship amid the realities of life. Our praise is not dependent on our circumstances but on the character and faithfulness of our God.