Hi, Friend!

Joy can be elusive, especially when you look in the wrong place.

If you're hungry for strawberries, where do you get them? Strawberries don't grow on apple trees. So, there's little point in looking up a tree.

Where does joy come from? It's a fruit of the Spirit.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23 NIV

The Gospel is the only true source of joy. Nothing inspires deeper joy than the Spirit revealing the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ in the hearts of the believer.

Matt

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