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The author drops the insight that when we review our experiences and time in the Word with an eye toward the emotion of God, He delights in the increased intimacy such that the impact is compounded. Storing that nugget in OneNote, I find it already has company. 34 times, I've squirreled away overlapping insights from disparate sources. Time to write my own book?

Most Christians have a deferred hope, not a daily celebration. When we miss out on his joy, we miss out on his fruitfulness.

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C. S. Lewis was able to call joy “the serious business of heaven.” Joy is room temperature whenever God is in the room.

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Trust is a heart issue with God. Communion with him requires an emotional investment that plows the ground of your heart to receive his affections. In that place of deep intimacy, he shares his heart and speaks.

Whenever we linger long in a joyless or apathetic season, our immediate reaction should be to run to God and ask for a deeper connection with him.

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God’s Spirit may inspire you and move you through your emotions, but rarely, if ever, does he insist on an immediate, unquestioning reaction. His inspiration is consistent, deep, and lasting—and he supports those who will test it to make sure it’s his.

Every “fear not” in the Bible is a call to conform to the emotions of heaven. God turns our mourning into dancing and gives us beauty for ashes. He invites us to enter into the joy of our Master and to look forward to the day when every tear is wiped away. We’re called to leap for joy when we are persecuted and to rejoice that our names are written in heaven.

We’re not only allowed to experience those feelings, we’re instructed to. It’s part of our discipleship; this is how we get to know God. God is intensely interested in our ability to conform to his heart.

When God inspired the writers of the Bible, they became a part of the story. He used their personalities, experiences, and emotions to tell his story. They were not passive observers of divine truth.

C. S. Lewis said, “Joy is the serious business of heaven.”

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