Finding Joy: In the midst of trials

No one enjoys being around miserable people. Unfortunately, way too many professing Christians display misery, anger, and bitterness over the circumstances that overtake them, rather than the joy they should have as children of God.

Salvation’s joy is not some brief shallow circumstantial emotion, but rather it is something permanent and profound. Mere happiness comes from positive
external events, but salvation’s joy results from the deep-rooted confidence that one possesses eternal life from the living God through the crucified and risen Savior, Jesus Christ.