Issue 2001 #1

Joy In Service
- Mary Petersen

Joy In Service
- Herbert W. Peeler

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When I think about this I think of someone who has made an honest and real commitment to Christ and does what he feels the Lord would have him or her do. One example of this would be to do service for Christ in the best possible way that they can with joy and willingness and not because they feel they should do it to please others or that it is their obligation.

Here are some quotes about JOY and SERVICE:

The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind - jump in.

- Charles R. Swindoll

We have learned that joy is more than a sense of the comic, more than earthly pleasure, and to a believer even more than what we call happiness. Joy is the enjoyment of God and the good things that come from the hand of God. If our new freedom in Christ is a piece of angel food cake, joy is the frosting. If the Bible gives us the wonderful words of life, joy supplies the music. If the way to Heaven turns out to be an arduous steep climb, joy sets up the chair lift.

- Sherwood Wirt.

We are chosen for you. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the travelling and in the goal, the way of joy. There is always a joy in doing the right thing. When we evade some duty or some task, when at last we set our hand to it, joy comes to us. The Christian is the man of joy. The Christian is the laughing cavalier of Christ. A gloomy Christian is a contradiction in terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

- William Barclay

History is willing to overlook almost anything - errors, paradoxes, personal weaknesses or faults - if only a man will give enough of himself to others.

- Norman Cousins