Joy in a Fallen World

Our daily experience is coloured by the results of the Fall – both because of the effects of our own sin and the sin of others – and the circumstances we are dealing with might lead us to feel anxious, depressed, weary, or despairing. Yet, as people who have been saved and who have been restored to relationship with God through the blood of Christ, we know that we have been given new life and that that new life is characterised by present joy. How, then, can we experience afresh the joy of the Lord that is ours, even today in the midst of our present (difficult) reality?