Fullness of Joy

Joy is a funny thing.

Uncontainable, invisible, elusive yet we try and wrap our arms around it, only to come up empty.

Fleeting as a laugh or a smile rising up without warning.

As quickly as it ignites, it can be put out.

Stolen by a glimpse of the past, and restored by a vision of the future, it can redirect our eyes to the wings of our soul or the weight of our sin. 

So easily shoved from a place of confidence, the voice of a condemning heart blurring through our mind echoes the fears of a heart shifting to shaky ground.

Yet You, Jesus, came so that we may have joy to the full.

Yet believing that this joy emanates from anything of this world to accomplish, use, or even see with our eyes is simply not true. 

Choosing fragmented pieces of our own design, we piece together our own version.

Jagged pieces of glass are scattered on the floor  yet we believe with the most cautious of movements we will not get hurt. 

Shoving people to fit into our story, jamming people to change and flourish into what we desire them to be, and believing that the achievement of a goal will bring satisfaction, we are incorrect.  We choose to dream of these rough patches being smoothed and paved over to perfection...but we are missing the core.

In Your heart our joy is found and made complete.  No where else.

The cornerstone of our lives, the anchor to our souls, the portion of our hearts You are.

And when this “joy” slips so easily through our loosening grips we finally see it was not what we believed it to be in the first place. 

Nothing more than a handful of dust tossed to the wind and lost to the endless sea in comparison to Your great love.

Binding my heart back to Yours, I am where I belong.

I am who I am meant to be, feeling the truest joy I was created to feel. I experience the completeness of the love of a Savior and King beyond any human relationship, and my weary eyes are lifted to rest upon the concreteness of the promise written upon my heart from the very beginning.

You are my joy Jesus and the brilliance of hope for my soul. 

You are the One whom I cling to in my weakness, You are the One I run to in times of elation, You are the One whose Spirit dwells within me and overwhelms me with peaces, You are my King whom I have fallen deeply in love with.

When my heart breathes lies, when storms bring darkness as a cover over my eyes, May I never forget. You are my love, my joy, my everything Jesus. 

“You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine abound (Psalm 4:7).”