JOY

"God, your God, has anointed you, pouring out the oil of joy on you more than anyone else."  Psalm 45:7 & Hebrews 1:9

I just wrote a whole response to Carol McLeod's DEFIANT JOY and lost it!  I'm just going to go on....oh well.

I am attempting to do a thorough study on JOY, so I am reading everything I can get my hands on about JOY.  One thing that I am finding disappointing is that of every book I've read about JOY so far, not one single book (so far) uses strictly JOY verses.  There are something like 200 (I don't know the exact count at this moment in time) verses in the Bible that use the word JOY.  I am surprised that the books I've been reading about JOY don't make more use of those verses.  The authors reference a handful of verses with JOY, but then use a large number of various other verses in their discussion of JOY.

Needless to say, don't be surprised if you one day learn that I have written a book that uses as many of the verses on JOY as possible!!!!