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His Joy
“Jesus…who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2).
In this verse, we have the Lord’s joy, and we might well ask, What was that joy, as He had the awfulness of the cross before Him?
The answer is profound! It was the joy of anticipating His return to the Father and sitting down at His right hand as a glorified man, knowing that all had been done to the glory and satisfaction of the One who had sent Him into the world. This was the purpose for which He had come, as He affirmed when He said, “My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me, and to finish His work…For I came down from heaven, not to do Mine own will, but the will of Him that sent Me” (John 4:34; 6:38).
At the end of it all He could say to His Father, with perfect confidence, “I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do” (John 17:4).
This was His joy, and now He finds His delight and joy in us. May this truth deepen our joy in Him!
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