Monday, November 30, 2009

Martyn Lloyd-Jones on True Joy

From "Fellowship with God", his first in a series of five books in studies on 1 John...

"Joy is something very deep and profound, something that affects the whole and entire personality.  In other words it comes to this; there is only one thing that can give true joy and that is a contemplation of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He satisfies my mind; He satisfies my emotions; He satisfies my every desire.  He and His great salvation include the whole personality and nothing less, and in Him I am complete.  Joy, in other words, is the response and the reaction to the soul to a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ." 

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