Trinity P.S.

If the joy of the Godhead is essentially the delight the Persons of the Trinity have in one another, then two things follow.

First, our joy is also tied into a relationship with those same Persons.

Secondly, our joy is also tied into fellowship with one another. In the Scriptures, the word joy is most often talked about in the context of community. Right relationships all around (with God and with one another) will be the source of our joy for all eternity.

Our work here on earth, then, is to be reconcilers, people who are passionate about restoring right relationships in any and every way they have become broken.

Could it be that our world, even the Christians within it, are so joyless because the relationships we have are so fractured, shallow and scattered? I think for me, at least, that is largely descriptive of my struggles to live a joy-full life.