The Joy That Stays
Everyone wants to be happy. But happiness, by its very nature, is fragile — built on what happens to us. The English word traces back to hap, an old word for luck and fortune. Jesus does not offer us that. In John 15:11, He offers something far deeper: my joy. His own joy — the same joy that carried Him through the cross. A joy that circumstances cannot reach, that does not require good news to survive, and that grows the closer we stay to the vine. This is the joy He wants to be complete in you.