"Chara"

Spoke yesterday on “chara” or joy. Doing just a little light surface Greek studying brought me to the definition “calm delight.” So often I’ve viewed joy as being happiness on some sort of stimulant. A God induced hyper happiness that seemed impossible to maintain. The fact is that it’s not that at all. Instead, it’s that deep peaceful knowledge that God has all things under control and that one day all things will be made right. In the midst of ever changing circumstance joy can still abound. I like the idea of calm delight.