Joy

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Dear soul out of Christ, you are robbing yourself. Your rejection of the salvation provided by the death of God's Son on Calvary is costing you the sacrifice of the highest joy. Not that a Christless man can have no joy. He may know the joy of health, friendship and domestic life. He may acquire money, power and fame; for God in mercy allows these blessings. It is "the goodness of God that draws men to repentance.”
There are nobler joys than these. A lost soul cannot know the joy of sins forgiven, nor the comfort and companionship of the Lord Jesus Christ, nor the joy of becoming like Him. It is God's purpose that all His children should be joyful—full of joy.
"These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy night remain in you, and that your joy might be full." John 15:1111These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. (John 15:11).
How different for the Christless one!
"The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God; and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 2 Thess. 1:7, 87And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (2 Thessalonians 1:7‑8).
Flee now to Christ from the coming wrath.