Are you like some believers who think that in order to be filled with the joy of the Lord they must be turned on, fired up, and superhyped?

God wants your joy to be full and complete, but that doesn’t mean you have to swing from chandeliers!

Some define joy as “hilarity,” and there is some basis for that definition. But according to Strong’s Concordance, the Greek word chara, translated joy in the above verse, means “calm delight.”

Of course there will be times when your joy will be supercharged and exciting, but most of the time we will live with a simple “calm delight.”

Joyce Meyer