Today's Journal
JOYFUL JESUS
Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) British pastor and author wrote:“We are happy to think Christ is happy. I do not know whether you have ever drank that joy, Believer, but I have found it a very sweet joy to be joyful because Christ is joyful.”
Spurgeon said many things well and this is one of them. Many times I have thought of the ‘daily Jesus’ hanging out with Martha, Mary and Lazarus, having a leisure time with Mary Magdalene and the group and high fiving with the twelve over a jug of V-8 Juice. There were plenty of tough times, accusations and confrontations with religious leaders but surely there were happy days filled with joy and laughter. I have to believe he occasionally made it back home to Joseph and Mary’s for a home cooked meal of Tacos de Cabra (no Carnitas’s allowed yet), some Cuban Coffee and his mother Mary’s Bread Pudding.
I certainly want to think of a Joyful Jesus as a happy man. I find it totally unreasonable and undesirable to follow an unhappy man.
“I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!” Jesus