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The Joy in My Heart




“With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation” (Isaiah 12:3).

Salvation is such an incredible gift of God. Knowing I am not lost brings me such joy that I have to share it, to tell others about it. Yet, this joy provides such a wonderful state of mind it’s kind of hard to describe. Last night, my wife and I had some dear friends over to worship with us in our little chapel, here at The Sanctuary at Camilla. We sang some of our favorite praise songs, talked about our shared love of Christ, prayed for our different family members and friends, and just spent this wonderful time loving the Lord. It was such a joy!

The Lord has given my wife (Sally) and me a great thirst for drinking of His living-water that flows from His well of salvation. We enjoy sharing this special water with others.

Knowing the Lord as we do, and appreciating the joy we have in Him; I look back to the time when we didn’t know Him. That was a time when we were likened to an dried-up pond. We were not satisfied with life. At that time, we followed after the world more. We were not different from a lot of people; yet we were missing this awesome feeling of peace and joy in knowing Christ like we do now. Admittedly, I wasn’t all that happy back then either. The most important piece of our life-puzzle was missing! We needed Jesus! I am  thankful God didn't give up on us back then, and that He continued to seek us even when we weren’t seeking Him. Thankfully too, Sally and I found our missing puzzle piece together, at the same time back in 2001. Our worship experience is now incredible! God has blessed us in many awesome ways since we turned our lives over to Him. We now joyfully share in His ministry, and He includes us in His plans. We are blessed!

What joy He provides to those who willingly accept Him. His Word, the Bible is full of expressions of His love for you and for me. Will you search them out? When we call upon Him, you and I can know He is always there! He fills our cup up to overflowing. Oh, what joy!

Do you share this same joy? I pray you do or that you can. Jesus said to the Samaritan woman at the well; “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water I will give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life” (John 4:13, 14).

Peace.

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