• 

• W. Wayne Gardner
  President
  Toccoa Falls College

  • About Me
  • Email me: wgardner @ tfc.edu
• Search for:

• Recently

  • Cambodia
  • REUNION HIGH SCHOOL
  • China Today
  • Change in Life
  • Christ Formed In Me

• Categories

  • Life
  • TFC

• Archives

  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • July 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • October 2010
  • August 2010
  • April 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008

• Blogroll

  • TFC History
  • Toccoa Falls College

• Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org

This week I attended a conference where Crawford Loritts was the speaker.  He spoke of the deep joy that is below the surface.  He stated that ” joy has to do with relationship not circumstances.  Joy is resilient happiness, Joy is confidence, Joy is Jesus living in our hearts and lives.”

Crawford used the Matthew 5 passage as well as the James 1:2 – 4 passage.  When we live with Jesus in our hearts we have His Joy and we can live through negative circumstances to find our lives become perfected and  complete.  “Look through your condition to the purpose.  Biblical Joy is the certainty that your circumstances doesn’t determine your soul’s state.”  Crawford concluded that when joy leaves us we need to ask three questions, “What is my heart attached to”, “Where is the permanent”, and “What do I need to know and learn.”

I came away from that meeting with more joy because I realized again that Jesus is our Joy, He is the source of our Joy and He is our confidence no matter what we face on this earth.  God is good all the time and all the time God is good.

Comments