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Christ: The Fullness of Joy
“Let us mark…how Christ indicates that when His joy abides in us our joy is full (John 15:11).
Joy depends much less on what we have, than on what we are. You may give me this and that, and everything that can be thought of, yet in my soul there be no wave of joy.
But change me inwardly; make me like Jesus; let me, like Him, hate wickedness and love righteousness with the whole force of my nature; let me abide, like Him, in the Father’s love; let my heart, like His, flow over with loving feelings on every side; let me, like Him, delight in doing God’s will, and in finishing, day by day, the work given me to do; let me, like Him, live in expectation of the glory that is to be revealed when He appears with His holy angels, when His redeemed are all gathered from east and from the west, from the north and from the south; then shall not my joy be pure, deep, and real? Shall my joy not even now be unspeakable and full of glory?”
William Garden Blaikie’s, The Inner Life of our Lord, 97-98.
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