The Joy Of Our Hearts

 We are instructed to keep the eyes of our hearts on Jesus Who has promised to carry all our burdens and to comfort us in all our affliction so that we may offer solace to others who are also weighed down by the cares of this world and oppressed by evil-doers.
 The Lord Jesus is the perfect example of a Man Who delighted Himself in the Lord. His was not an easy path. He learned obedience by the things that He suffered. Nevertheless, the Lord Jesus delighted Himself in His God and Father throughout His life, and even endured the Cross and despised its shame for the JOY that was set before Him. I seek not My will but the will of Him that sent Me, was His daily desire.
 When our will is aligned with the will of God, as was intended in the beginning, then the things that delight our Heavenly Father will naturally become the joy of our own hearts. When we delight ourselves in the Lord and take pleasure in the things that are uppermost on God's own heart, we will discover that they become The Joy Of Our Hearts and we will be able to spiritually appraise all things and to say  that we are one with Him.
Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Our United Prayer:
Heavenly Father, forgive us for the times when we have delighted ourselves in wrong things. Keep us from fretting over evildoers in this increasingly confusing world, and help us to keep the eyes of our hearts on Jesus and to delight ourselves in the things of God. Align our thoughts to Your thoughts, we pray, and our will to the will of God. May the desires of our hearts unite with Your will and eternal purposes, for Your everlasting praise and glory. This we ask in Jesus' name, AMEN.