Joy
In the movie "The Bucket List", Morgan Freeman tells Jack Nicholson that the ancient Egyptians believed that when you died and went to the next life, the gods there would require you to answer the two following questions before you could go enter the gates. Those two questions were:
A) Did you find joy in your earthly life?
B) Did you bring joy to others in your earthly life?
Being a Christian, I don't believe that is what happens in the next life.........but I do believe those are two pretty good questions to ask. Sadly, most surveys reveal that non-Christians perceive Christians as angry.......therefore not very joy-filled.
I don't believe that is true, but I can see where some people might get that impression. Within the last few weeks a friend of mine told me about a conversation he had recently with another believer. They were discussing different congregations in the town where they both live, and the believer told my friend something to the effect of "you don't need to visit that congregation.......they show a lot of joy there, and you know what happens when joy takes over". Yeah, sad but true. Joy is seen as a vice by some amongst us. Not good, huh?
So, in closing, I guess I will just challenge you to ask yourself the two questions the ancient Egyptians did. I hope you can answer YES to both of them!
3 Comments:
Oh boy! Lets be sure to avoid people with joy. It is very dangerous you know.
A fellow visited a church of Christ and as he listened to the preacher's lesson he said loudly AMEN! and once PRAISE THE LORD!
At the end of the service an elder questioned the man asking "Why would you speak out like that during our worship service?" The man replied "Well brother, I've got the Spirit". The elder replied, "Well you didn't get the Spirit here so if you come back you need to be quiet".
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