Finding Joy

This week at Bible study we were reading in Romans chapter 5. One of our warm up questions asked us to recall when we have experienced joy in the last 2 months. Most of us were at a loss to answer the question. Two of us mentioned feeling joy when out of town family visited, but that was about it. We were such a sorry bunch that we couldn’t recall experiencing true joy. Then we remembered that a member of our group accepted Christ and got baptized recently. There’s one to write down. What else…hmm… (I had already set the tone for the evening by going back into our previous week’s study and asking the big whammy question “What area of your life are you struggling in that you need to trust God and have faith?” That shut everyone right up. Even I didn’t really share my big thing. I said some other lesser stuff on my mind.

While I was looking inward to find my joy, I was reminded of what Pastor Rob wrote about this very topic last month. (click here). Our “homework” from our study is to look for joy in our lives, and I am going to look outside of myself for it, starting with verse 2 in Romans chapter 5-

Because of our faith, Christ has brought us into this place of undeserved privilege where we now stand, and we confidently and joyfully look forward to sharing God’s glory.