Into the Joy.

"If your deepest joy is in the circumstances of this life, then when your circumstances are painful you'll have nothing but grief and no joy. And when your circumstances are successful then you'll have nothing but joy and no grief...

But, if your heart is most rooted in your eternal hope, then when the grief comes-- when the suffering comes-- it actually drives you more into the joy you've got in Christ, and the result is that your faith, of greater worth than gold, may be proved genuine-- just the way gold goes through the fire and becomes something beautiful."

-Tim Keller, Hope For Your Life
October 11, 2009