A Joy Which Will Never Give Way

Finding Joy in the created order will cause your Foundation to crack and your Pillars to give way. Build your life on a different foundation.

Your life is a structure.

There’s a Foundation.

There’s Pillars.

Then there is what people actually see.

Hope is Pillar #1

Faith is Pillar #5

Joy is Pillar #2

The Pillars are built upon a Foundation. Your Foundation is what you have Hope and Faith in. Hope & Faith are your support pillars. They bear the major load.

Joy is the first of the other Pillars. The other Pillars are more visible. And their strength is based on the strength of your Foundation, Hope and Faith.

Everyone seeks Joy. And apart from Jesus, we seek Joy through circumstantial happiness.

The question of our life is "What will make me happy?”

And we call it Joy.

You have a leadership responsibility. Your responsibility is to lead people to a Joy which is built on the Foundation of Jesus. A Joy which will not crumble when circumstances pressure their lives.

Which also means your Joy cannot be circumstantial. Your Joy cannot be built upon the Foundations of…

Success

Approval

Religion

Knowledge

Cleanliness

These will fail you. They’ll start to crack and cause your Pillars to give way.

Instead, find Joy because you Hear & Follow Jesus. This Joy will give you inner excitement despite any circumstance you face.

And then you can lead others to find the Joy which will never give way.