KRISTINA
Good Morning, my name is Kristina Crabtree, minister of spiritual formation at Central United Methodist Church.
The image of joy, I believe is an image that we all desire. We desire for joy to be present in our lives. We see it in other people and desire for joy in our lives. I believe desiring joy is a God given desires of our hearts as followers of Jesus. In John 15:11, Jesus speaks of his joy being our joy. How can that be possible? What was the joy that Jesus had? Oswald Chambers describes Jesus’ joy by saying, “The joy of Jesus was the absolute self-surrender and self-sacrifice of himself to His fathers, the joy of doing that which the Father sent him to do.” Jesus even said, he delighted to do God’s will. Jesus’ joy did not come by success or understanding but through communion with God. Jesus joy came from always being in communion with his Father. May we today, desire the joy of being in communion with our heavenly Father.
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