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Excerpts: May there be in our lives the joy that was Christ's, because enabled to accept everything--however painful--from the hand of the Father, who will never cause His child a needless tear.
“And now come I to Thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have MY JOY fulfilled in themselves” (John 17:13).
The drink offering formed part of the offerings under the old dispensation and was their accompaniment. In the book of Numbers chapter 28:7 we read: “In the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.”
What is the meaning and significance of thus connecting wine with sacrifice? Sacrifice speaks of death, and death involves suffering. Why should joy — for wine is a symbol of joy — be associated with suffering? We think the explanation can be found in the life and death of the Lord Jesus Christ. His experiences furnish the answer. With Him the drink offering was never lacking. He found joy even in suffering. Not only did He submit to the will of God — He found pleasure in doing so. That will involve suffering of the deepest and most mysterious kind — a suffering which no one understood but Himself, and in which there was no alleviation, not even human sympathy. Yet, present in it all, there was this element of joy. The joy He had in doing the Father’s will, in accepting His Father’s appointment, was part of His wondrous offering to God.
Table of Contents
Joy in the Father’s Will 3
His Joy in Us 5
Joy Despite Tears 7
Trust in a Well-Known God 9
Joy in Hard Circumstances 11
Joy in and the Holy Spirit 13
Perfect Communion 16