The knowledge of one's saving relationship to Christ can bring unquenchable joy into believing hearts, and this is something that only Christians can ever understand. 'Rejoice in the Lord' means rejoice in being Christ's, in having Christ's Father as your Father, in being right with God the Father and an heir of his glory through Christ's mediation, and in possessing salvation and eternal life as Christ's gift. We are to let joy flow from this source. How will that happen? Through the fulfilling of a four-source formula.
The first source of joy is the awareness that one is loved...
The second source of joy is the acceptance of one's situation as good...
Joy's third source is possession of something worth possessing...
The fourth source of joy is to give something worth giving...
From: Great Joy - A 31-Day Devotional
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