There are times in my life where i experience joy that is so complete that I want to just blow up. Times I want to just run around screaming "I LOVE JESUS!!" Sometimes my joy makes me speecheless. I have had times when I could not speak, I can only cry. When I get to see God face to face in heaven, I am scared I might just blow up! In 2 Samuel 6:14 David, The King!, dances before the Lord just because the ark of the covenant was brought back to Jerusalem. How much more reason, given Jesus, do we as christians have to dance. And the beauty of our dancing, is the fact that it is an act of not only overflowing joy but of surrender to the God of the universe. We empty everything we are before God and he fills us back up overflowing.
But there is another part to this joy. With this knowledge and joy comes sorrow. The sorrow I think that Jesus had when he weeped over Jerusalem. I have sorrow for the people who are completely missing all this joy. The ones who the bible says are blinded to the Gospel. I have wept over my friends before because I fear they will never know Jesus and his radical power to change lives. I ask the question constantly before God: "why me?, why did you reveal your gospel to me? I am just as guilty as the rest of the world! I deserve HELL, and you showed me the way! why can't others see this truth too? Why have you allowed the god of this age to blind anyone's mind?"
If you are reading this and you don't know Jesus in a way that he makes you want to blow up for joy I plead with you to get to know him like that. If you are a christian, forsake yourself and give everything to him. If you are not a christian, come to the cross of Christ and he will give you forgiveness and life and Joy. He can make you right with God solely by his sacrifice.
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