Resurrected Joy

Have you allowed anyone to steal your joy? 

• Satan is always on the prowl to rob you of the joy that is within you.  He finds pleasure in your loss.  
• People also tend to steal our joy.  You know what I’m talking about… that individual whose comments (although meant to be harmless) you take personally.  Or perhaps the person who says something to hurt you, and you let it cut you deep.  
• Situations frequently steal our joy.  When things don’t go your way, or the way you thought they should go, and we sulk and pout our disapproval.  I know of a number of folks who, when their team loses a game, will become sullen and depressed; allowing their joy to be taken from them.

It is commonly thought that the female gender is weaker, more emotional than men; but as we see from the biblical account of Christ’s death, it was this ‘weaker’ gender that had the strength to stand by their Lord while most of the other disciples (the men) ran away.  These women, who remained with Jesus, who likely saw Him beaten, who Luke says followed Him as He bore the cross to Calvary, who John reports as standing by Christ’s cross as He died; these women were women of great strength, but at the death of their Savior they had lost their joy.


God knows our every need and He knew the need of these ladies to get into the tomb.  Now while the need was met, the purpose was different.  They were headed in to see Jesus, God opened the tomb to reveal Jesus was not there. (But that’s getting ahead the story.)


For the full message shared on 04-01-12 at the  First Church of God - Racine, WI go to:
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