Posted on April 30, 2010 - by Stephen Murray

9 Reasons we Don’t Experience Joy

1. We don’t understand the depth of our sin.

2. We don’t understand the breadth of God’s love.

3. We don’t understand the cost of Christ’s death in our place.

4. We only understand intellectually, not at a heart level.

5. We don’t nurture our affections for Christ through spiritual disciplines.

6. We don’t understand the glory of the hope of the new creation.

7. We don’t understand the now/not yet tension when we try and live consistently with the hope that we have.

8. We spoil our appetite for this hope by pursuing other hopes this side of the new creation.

9. We have not pleaded with Christ in prayer to pour his love into our hearts through the Spirit.