Bible Chat on Joy

 “You say you are a person of faith. Then where the devil is your joy?”

  It is said that there is a certain joy that Christ gives which no one can take away from you.  Comment-

   +See John 16:22

   +Philippians 4:4

 Joy is also linked with discovering newness in life- St. Luke 1:13+14, Luke 1:44, Luke 1:58, Luke 2:10, Luke 15:24

Joy is also linked to Discovery- Matt.13:20, Matt 13:44, Matt 18:13, Mark 4:16, Luke 10:21, Luke 19:6, Luke 15:9

Joy is also linked to turning things around for the good- Luke 15:7, John 16:20-24, 17:13

Joy is the discovery of life that is living IN Christ- Phil 1:21, John 15:11

  Edith Wharton writes,” Joy is also the awareness that even in anguish there is a conscious lift of the heart which made one of the saints declare ‘joy is the inmost core of sorrow.’’

  Monica Beck liked to say that ‘pain hollows out that joy may fill the more.’