God’s Kingdom & Our Joy
March 5, 2015
Don Mann, Associate Pastor | Stewardship
Jesus uses the metaphor of the pain during childbirth to
depict the indescribable pain of loss and grief the disciples would experience
at His death. And just as we often cannot grasp the truth of a baby until after
the pain of delivery, they could not grasp the truth of the resurrection until
after their eyes had been opened to see Him. Just as in childbirth, the
remembrance of their pain vanished when He stood before them. Once they saw
Jesus in His resurrected body, their joy could not be taken away.
We desire joy that is eternal, yet when we seek it in things
that are temporary, our joy is taken away. Jesus has come to establish a
Kingdom with eternal joy in the King Himself. That Kingdom cannot be shaken.
Hebrews 12 gives a prescription for permanent joy and references this very
event. Read the chapter closely and ask the question, “How could God use endurance
and perseverance in my difficulty to turn my sorrow into joy?”
ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURE:
Hebrews 12
TWEET THIS: Jesus
has come to establish a Kingdom with eternal joy in the King Himself.
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