Joy to the world, the Lord has come!

That phrase is one we may say or hear and not think much of during this season. But as I thought about it, I realized that phrase is so powerful, especially if you are walking through really tough stuff in this season.

There will never be true joy in our lives until the Lord comes into every part of our lives. And when we think He has, we realize there is yet another room in our hearts filled with debris from the past. Jesus is just outside waiting patiently and knocking ever so gently to come in and take up residence in that cavern of our hearts and all it takes is our simple “Yes” to Him.

There was a space inside of me like this I just discovered recently and I cannot tell you the joy I am experiencing in the middle of a tough season because of letting my Lord Jesus come in and sweep out the old in an area of my heart I thought I had already dealt with. The cool thing about this phrase is once our joy is restored as a result of Jesus coming in and rearranging things for us to be put in order in the depths of our souls (in His presence is fullness of joy) we then do what I’m doing through this blog and you can do your version as well of spreading this joy to the world! 

Joy to the world. The Lord has come. 

I hope every time you hear this lyric or phrase during this season, you will ask Jesus to come a little deeper into your life and as He does, He is the lifter of our heads scripture says and I pray He lifts your head up to see above and past what you’ve been focusing on. I pray His joy unspeakable and full of glory over you right now no matter what kind of muck and mire you are wading through in life as you read these words.

I hope “Joy to the World” gets stuck in your head and becomes your anthem this Christmas! Join us at Harvest Church or online as my husband is in a series currently called Joy to the World! See ya there or at harvestmobile.com Sunday’s at 10am CST. 

Happy Monday, y’all!