The Fruit of the Spirit (3): Joy (1)

Significantly, joy, one of the nine aspects of the fruit of the Spirit, is near the beginning of the list in Galatians 5:22, right beside love. Joy for the believer is not unimportant. The new life of Christ in us is one not of misery, but of spiritual joy. Even the wine of the Lord's Supper signifies that the life that Christ works in us is not dismal and dark, but full of real, heavenly joy and gladness in Him and with our fellow saints. That joy is vital to the life of the believer is...