Joy

Joy is the major goal of most lives. We all have basic needs as human beings with the need to satisfy hunger and the need for intimacy often as our priority. We seek to fulfill the need to be loved, the need to belong, the need to have an ultimate purpose, and the need for a sense of personal self worth. Joy helps bring those things to fruition.

One way or another when any one of these needs is met it fills to some extent our need for joy. If fact when some are not able to find their joy in basic thongs they often risk their health and their life in order to feel it even for a short time. They do strange things, dangerous things, spontaneous things, even crazy things to get that feeling-because joy is behind so much of what we do.

Like all things that are important to us we want to also share that joy. Those of us who are sensitive to others will want them to have the same experience. When you are walking two inches off the ground because of a new relationship you can't wait to tell your friends. You want to share your new found joy. Some of the things or experiences themselves that bring joy you want to share with those close to you so that they can also have the feeling.

What does it mean for you and me to have joy? Once you have it--really have it--you can't help but share it. That's what makes it so much fun.

Psalm 35:27 "Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."