Oswald Chambers: Joy - Strength In The LordSample

Whenever the angels come to this earth they come bursting with a joy which instantly has to be stayed (cf. Luke 2:13). This earth is like a sick chamber, and when God sends His angels here He has to say—“Now be quiet; they are so sick with sin that they cannot understand your hilarity.” Whenever the veil is lifted there is laughter and joy. These are the characteristics that belong to God and God’s order of things; sombreness and oppression and depression are the characteristics of all that does not belong to God. Every time we have transacted business with God on His covenant and have let go entirely on God, there is no sense of merit in it, no human ingredient at all, but such a complete overwhelming sense of being a creation of God’s that we are transfigured by peace and joy. Reflection Questions: What veil of false teaching keeps me from experiencing the joy of the Lord? When was the last time I was bursting with joy? How are creativity and joy related? Quotations taken from Not Knowing Where, © Discovery House Publishers