Your Joy Will Be Complete

Deuteronomy 16:12-15 – Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees. Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. Be joyful at your festival—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

Job 38:6-7 – On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone—while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?

Psalm 4:7 – Fill my heart with joy when their grain and new wine abound.

John 15:11 – I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.

Philippians 2:1-2 – Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.

Application:

• ·         Your joy will be complete as a result of God’s blessing.
• ·         When the earth was created, the angels were there to sing the praises of the Creator, but Job was not.
• ·         The heart, in Biblical language, was the center of the human spirit, from which spring emotions, thoughts, motivations, courage and action—“everything you do flows from it”.
• ·         The Christian way is never dreary, for Jesus desires His disciples’ joy to be complete.
• ·         Like-minded is not uniformity in thought but the common disposition to work together and serve one another—the “mindset” of Christ.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV