Choose Joy!

This message is part of our series, "Higher Ground".  Our world system makes it pretty clear that joy is something that happens to you if you can just click in all the right things–kind of a roll of the dice.  The implication is that it is clearly related to our circumstances.  The amazing, counter-intuitive teaching of the Bible is that joy is a choice, largely unrelated to circumstances; that joy is available to everyone, not just the lucky.  In fact, joy is listed as one of the tell-tale evidences that the Spirit of God is active in your heart. It is a radical decision everyone has to make:  Will I choose joy? Will you?