Joy comes from keeping Christ’s commandments, from overcoming sorrow and weakness through Him, and from serving as He served.
Joy comes from and because of Him. … For Latter-day Saints, Jesus Christ is joy!
Saints are those who have entered into the gospel covenant through baptism and are striving to follow Christ as His disciples.
“The joy of the saints” denotes the joy of becoming Christlike.
The wicked may “have joy in their works for a season,” but it is always temporary.
The joy of the Saints is enduring.
God sees things in their true perspective, and He shares that perspective with us through His commandments, effectively guiding us around the pitfalls and potholes of mortality toward eternal joy.
The Lord’s commandments are our guide to better choices and happier outcomes.
“When I received the gospel, I felt like a captured bird that had been liberated. My heart was filled with joy. … I had the assurance that God loves me.” -Sister Kamwanya
Keeping the Lord’s commandments enables us more fully and more easily to feel His love.
The strait and narrow path of the commandments leads directly to the tree of life, and the tree and its fruit, the sweetest and “most desirable above all things,” are a representation of the love of God and fill the soul “with exceedingly great joy.”
It is in turning to Him, obeying Him, binding ourselves to Him that trial and sorrow are turned to joy.
We find joy in overcoming misery
This is the joy of sensing progress in the path of discipleship; the joy of “having received a remission of … sins, and having peace of conscience”; the joy of feeling one’s soul expand and grow through the grace of Christ.
Think of that! In order for Him to endure the most excruciating experience ever endured on earth, our Savior focused on joy!
Here is the full talk:https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/2019/10/14christofferson?lang=eng
-Sherri Jorgensen
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