Champagne for the Soul: Celebrating God's Gift of Joy

by Mike Mason

During this time I learned that the search for joy is inseparable from spiritual warfare, and anyone who wants to be happy will have to fight for it.

Joy’s favorite chair is your sadness, your weakness, your grief. Wherever your wounds are most tender, joy finds a soft place to settle. A lighthearted person may rejoice, but no one has greater capacity for joy than one who is, like our Savior, “a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” (Isaiah 53:3). Joy loves our brokenness best.

Separate joy from sorrow and there’s nothing left.

The happiest thought in the world is the shed blood of Christ.

Without a deep sense of well-being, one cannot achieve the release from self-consciousness that is joy’s prerequisite.

Jesus knew that the great danger in spiritual warfare is to become preoccupied with the darkness.

While suffering is inevitable, misery is optional.