Psalm 126:5-6
New International Version (NIV)
5 Those who sow with tears
will reap with songs of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
will reap with songs of joy.
6 Those who go out weeping,
carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
carrying sheaves with them.
The word ‘joy’ has such a specific connotation of
extreme happiness, so much so that it is often used sarcastically because “who
could really be full of joy?”.
noun
1. 1.
a feeling of great
pleasure and happiness.
"tears of
joy"
synonyms:
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delight, great
pleasure, joyfulness, jubilation, triumph, exultation,rejoicing, happiness,
gladness, glee, exhilaration, exuberance, elation,euphoria, bliss, ecstasy, rapture; More |
However the joy of the Lord is not necessarily the
kind of joy the world defines. Joy in the Lord is being able to stand in the
midst of chaos and not be moved. To be able to smile when the enemy tries to
knock you off course, but you push him back under your feet.
I use to think that joy was an emotion that I would
filled with happiness, smiling all the time and having it easy in life for
whatever period of time. I learned that this isn’t true, you can have joy and
not be happy about your circumstances but have joy because you know that things
get so much better because you are a child of God.
Remember to “count it all joy” even when things are “blah”
or things look like it’s going “south”.
Don’t assume that just because someone is not jumping
up and down, clicking their heels or smiling all the time, that they don’t have
joy.
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