the Joy of Triune God becomes our joy

our God is a God of Joy, and He wants to give Himsef as joy to us, to fill us with Himself as joy. 

1. God the Father is joy. 

Romans 15:13 Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Joy is one of God's attributes. if we enjoy God as grace, we will have peace, and if we have peace, we will have joy.

2. Christ is also joy

John 15:11 These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you and that your joy may be made full.

when Christ abides in us, His joy abides in us to be the source of our joy that our joy may abund and become full. 

3. there is joy in the Holy Spirit

Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

when we touch the Lord in our spirit, enjoy the Lord, who wants to be our enjoyment, we will become joyful, making our soul happy in the Lord. 

how can the joy of the Triune God practically become our joy? if we abide in the Lord and keep abiding in Him by abiding in His love, we will be filled with joy. the primary matter that we need to take care of is enjoying the Lord. no matter what kind of outward circumstances we are in, the Lord who lives in us is our joy. while we enjoy the Lord in many aspects in our daily life, we are a joyful people, and any difficulty we encounter will help to deepen our joy in the Lord. 

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

1 John 4:19

1 John 4:19 We love because He first loved us.

To take Christ as our person is not to force ourselves to submit to Him but to live according to His preference because of our love for Him. 

Have you had your cup?

2 Timothy 4:1

2 Timothy 4:1 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom. 

Not many believers realize that when the Lord Jesus comes back, He will not come as the merciful God or as the gracious Savior but as the righteous Judge. Christians should be warned and encouraged to prepare themselves to stand before this Judge. 

the bible has clearly told us that when the Lord comes back, at the judgement seat of Christ, we, as His believers, all need to give an account to Him. at this time, He will not be the merciful One to us, where we can beg His mercy and He will just let us go. No. He will be the righteous Judge, the foundation of whose throne is righteousness and justice. He will judge us according to righteousness how we conducted ourselves in our daily living. if we have this view, His coming will be a warning and reminder to us, that we can not live our life on the earth in a loose way. rather, our daily living should be governed in the light of His second coming. 

HWMR - 04,04,2023

In His economy God gives us one person and one way. The one person is the preeminent, all-inclusive Christ, and the one way is the cross. As the all-inclusive One, Christ is everytying to us. He is God, man, and the reality of every positive thing in the universe. God has given us this marvelous person to be our salvation. The one person, Christ, is the center of the universe; and the one way, the cross, is the center of of God's government. God governs everything by the cross and deals with everything by the cross. Therefore, just as Christ is the focal point of the universe, so the cross is the center of God's government.

Psalms 86:12

Psalms 86:12 I will praise You, O Lord my God, with all my heart; / And I will glorify Your name forever.

Praise is the highest work carried out by God's children. The Christian life soars through praises. To praise is to transcend everything to touch the Lord. 

1 Chronicles 4:10

1 Chronicles 4:10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh that You would richly bless me and enlarge my border, and that Your hand would be with me, and that You would so keep me from evil that it would not grieve me! And God caused what he had requested to come to pass.

we need to have such a prayer like Jabez, asking the Lord to enlarge our border, which is our enjoyment of the Lord, so that we can gain more of Christ day by day. if we pray such a prayer, God is more than willing and happy to answer our prayer, to cause what we request to come pass. 

Revelation 17:14

Revelation 17:14 These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and they who are with Him, the called and chosen and faithful, will also overcome them.

one of the most crucial characteristics of those who were produced to be the overcomers by the overcoming Christ, is "faithfulness". we are not faithful and we have no faithfulness in ourselves. But God is faithful, and He is constituting Himself into us to produce faithfulness within us. When we are constituded with God, the very faithful One, we can and will become faithful, and we must be faithful to God.

HWMR - 03,03,2023

We have been grafted into Christ, becoming the branches of the vine tree revealed in John 15. We have been grafted into Christ by this all-inclusive Spirit. when we believed into Jesus as the Savior, this all-inclusive Spirit came into us, delivering us from all the negative things on the negative side and grafting us into Christ so that we might become a branch of Christ on the positive side.

HWMR - 24,02,2023

Once we see the love of Jesus, we will be so constrained, so captured, and so attracted. We will spotaneously love Him. Then by loving Him, we will enjoy Him.