{"id":591,"date":"2008-08-16T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-17T01:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/08\/16\/joy-is-essential\/"},"modified":"2008-08-16T21:54:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T01:54:05","slug":"joy-is-essential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Joy Is Essential."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you beginning to see now how essential joy is?<\/p>\n<p><em>Because <\/em>we live in a world at war.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Because <\/em>the enemy is relentless.\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Because <\/em>we are &#8220;hard pressed on every side&#8221; (2 Corinthians 4:8).\u00c2\u00a0 For these very reasons we need joy.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots and lots of joy.\u00c2\u00a0 Bucketfuls.\u00c2\u00a0 Wagonloads.\u00c2\u00a0 Joy can counter the effect of all this unrelenting other stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 Without it we&#8217;ll get drained from the battle, sucked dry.\u00c2\u00a0 We won&#8217;t have anything to draw upon.\u00c2\u00a0 No inner reserves.\u00c2\u00a0 We&#8217;ll waste away.\u00c2\u00a0 Throw in the towel.\u00c2\u00a0 Or we&#8217;ll fall into an addiction because we are absolutely starved for joy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; John Eldredge, <em>Walking With God, <\/em>p. 114<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you beginning to see now how essential joy is? Because we live in a world at war.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the enemy is relentless.\u00c2\u00a0 Because we are &#8220;hard pressed on every side&#8221; (2 Corinthians 4:8).\u00c2\u00a0 For these very reasons we need joy.\u00c2\u00a0 Lots and lots of joy.\u00c2\u00a0 Bucketfuls.\u00c2\u00a0 Wagonloads.\u00c2\u00a0 Joy can counter the effect of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joy","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}