Isaiah 12:3 (NIV) With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Psalm 126:5 (NIV) Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.
Isaiah 61:10 (NIV) I delight greatly in the LORD; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
"I know not how God will dispose of me. I am always happy. All the world suffers; and I, who deserve the severest discipline, feel joys so continual and so great that I can scarce contain them."
—Brother Lawrence in The Practice of the Presence of God.
Christianity Today, Vol. 35, no. 1. Elesha Hodge, comp., Today's Best Illustrations – Volumes 1-4, (Carol Stream, IL: Christianity Today, 1997), WORDsearch CROSS e-book, Under: "JOY".
