Overflowing joy
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
My very being longs, even yearns, for the Lord’s courtyards. My heart and my body will rejoice out loud to the living God! ~ Psalm 84:2 (CEB)
I have loved you even as the Father has loved me... I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! ~ John 15:9,11 (NLT)
KEY IDEA:
Our connection to Jesus fills us with overflowing joy.
PRAYER:
Abiding Savior, because of your love you stick with us through both the good times and the bad times. I confess that when the bad times hit my first inclination is to panic. Keep me calm and trusting so that the overflow of your joy pouring from my life might be constant. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
