lately I have been meditating a lot on the word 'joy'. in prayer time, in ways I do not understand, I learn that when we come in humility before the Lord, we find an explicable joy as we find ourselves drowning in His love. when we set aside our concern for the lacks, when we set aside our fear for the unknowns, when we take time to simply abide in His love, and allow Him to abide in us, that's when His joy becomes our joy. And our joy becomes complete. and it occurs to me that Christ, even now, is rejoicing all the time over us! He rejoices for two reasons. He rejoices because He knows that He Has Conquered the World. It is Done. It is FINISHED. The battle was won. it was game over for the dark side. Nothing could've undone His work on the cross. in our eyes, it seems like a never ending battle against sin. it seems like an ever changing destiny, where one day we feel like we are heaven-bound and the other day, we are not so sure. But in Jesus' eyes, our destiny is...