Joy: A concept that at its surface may be hard to encompass, pen down, describe, and perhaps even elusive to the spirit if one were to try to capture and own. Pleasantries in passing, trees rising, and oceans bringing good tidings, and all the seasons bare timing and music brings tempo as the sun brings smiling; all as a tether teetered over a vastness that without an anchoring in foundational truth and justice, would be sheer futility—just as some would say ‘speaking truth to power’. Goosebumps also baring forth as communique, human virtues bubble to the surface as man’s redeeming qualities breathe honor into the poor and the meager in spirit, while the boastful eventually collapse in on oneself. Just as well, the exalted to be humbled; the humbled to be exalted, and the meek to inherit the earth.
The sustaining desire of joy, and the eternal gift of happiness, given as living water under the bridge as the Redeemer connects man back to the Creator, and lifts fallen man back to how the pristine state of the garden was. Justice: also, just as all-present and encompassing as the joy that which is to be presented and once had seemingly evaded humanity but now restored.
Just as life and more abundantly blossoms and expounds onto its infinite blessing; without justice the joy in the heart of man withers and is dry at its core. Justice protects the core of the bounty of the humble, and will humble the exalted down to the core. The faithful to be refined and valued as an ore; while the faithless to be expelled as impure, and death and more destructively serves as the juxtaposition to life and more abundantly. The seemingly infinite sea of humanity never to be faceless, rather multi-faceted for those with depth of character, and two-faced for others as their reflections go adrift. All while justice serves as a rock and hard place for the unjust, the same rock brings forth joy and a breath of air to the ones who may have seemed washed up but never washed away—patiently paddling, bated breath and all, arriving as the sinkable and being taken away as the immovable.
Proverbs 21:15 It is a joy for the just to do justice,
But destruction will come to the workers of iniquity.
Amos 5:24 But let justice run down like water,
And righteousness like a mighty stream.
Isaiah 55:12
For you shall go out with joy,
And be led out with peace;
The mountains and the hills
Shall break forth into singing before you,
And all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
James 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. 4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
1 Peter 1:7-9 That the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, 8 whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, 9 receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.