Jesus offers to make our joy complete and to give us the full measure of his joy. Since Jesus is wholly God, His joy is complete and whole joy. That Jesus offers us such joy is astonishing.
Therefore, find your joy in God for in his presence is fullness of joy. Don't let joy depend on getting all the things you want because there will awlays be more things that you don't have, therefore there will always be more things that will prevent you from enjoying life. LET JESUS BE YOUR JOY, rather than waiting to enjoy life "when...."
Christ must be at the center of your relationships because He provides a stable, fixed point of reference; otherwise, your relationships will be frail and fragile.
Every relationship is based or founded on something. For example, some relationships are based on the fact that both people work for the same company, attend the same school, or sharing a similar interest in a hobby or sport.
With all of relationships, once a common bond is no longer present, the relationship will tend to deteriorate. For example, once a child graduates from high school and moves off to college, he or she will probably lose most of the relationships formed with classmates, because school is not longer a common bond and thus there is nothing holding the relationship together.
However, if your relationships are formed around a common belief in Christ, then no matter what else happens inlife, as long as that common bond is still present those relationships will last.
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