When you imagine life for yourself, your family, your significant other, you never imagine pain. You imagine the happy moments filled with smiles, playing Just Dance, or Karaoke with friends. You never imagine ripping your heart out to avoid the heartaches that people that "suppose" to love you bring, nor do you imagine a life filled with loneliness to remain detached from people to avoid getting hurt.
When people mention joy, they don't mention that its not always filled with smiles and laughs but often filled with hurt, pain, and suffering. But, one may ask, how is this joy. Joy is Jesus over yourself. We suffer with Christ so that we might reign with him. Suffering with Christ, shows God that we can bare the fruit of long-suffering, temperance, and meekness. I often learn through my own suffering that when Jesus suffered for me, he chose me over himself. So how can I be joyful in a world that is full of hurt, harm, and disappointment? By putting Jesus over myself. This way, I know that my suffering is not in vain.
My suffering is not for the enemy's pleasure but for my Lord and Savior to get the glory in the end. We have joy through Jesus. In this world, you will experience pain, but putting Jesus over yourself will get you through it and to a more joyful state because you are living for Jesus, suffering for Jesus as he has done for you.
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