Why wouldn’t most everyone want to experience great joy in their life? Experiencing great joy is no huge secret but it’s very subjective and varies from person to person. It actually dips into the area of philosophical thinking as there are many aspects that we could include. There are many books touting the secret to happiness and fulfillment. But in my opinion, joy goes much deeper than happiness. To illustrate this in nature, joy is not just what we see in the bubbling over of a stream but comes from the very source of the water, many times way beneath the surface. By finding the source, there is greater possibility of a well that won’t run dry with one drought or change.
Principles of finding that great joy are in life all around us and it is a mental perspective or picture of appreciation and awe of how life seems to be arranged to bless us. In fact, the word blessed means great joy, favor or gift. Blessed is a term used loosely, especially in spiritual phrases. Blessed was a term used in a scriptural sermon expounded on a hill on the shore of Lake Galilee in North Israel more than 2,000 years ago. (It’s written in the New Testament book of Matthew 5 in the Sermon on the Mount) The terms used at that time were phrased differently than today, but the root principles of joy and blessedness are timeless. We will cover four areas here that I hope will at least stimulate your thinking about joy. Full article here: https://goalsforyourlife.com/great-joy/
