The love of Christ for us is so profound that it is the very joy that the Father has in the Son.
Rejoicing in the Father and the Son is essential in glorifying God. Rejoicing in God is glorifying God. And Jesus is committed to making that happen within us. Through our suffering. Through our sacrifice. Through self-denial. Through worship, admiration, and fellowship.
“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. ” – Lk 6:22-23
To delight in creation more than the Creator is treason. Jesus’ demand for us to hope in Him with great joy is not unaided by His Spirit within us. We are given his continual presence by the Spirit placed within us. To experience the fullness of his presence and the joy it brings to glorify God the Father and the Son.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” – Mt 13:44
It is in this joy of the believer that the trauma of sin is removed.
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