Andrew Murray's Daily Meditations
That My Joy Might Remain in You
“These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”
Christ had joy. We do not always picture him so — the Man of Sorrows looms larger in our minds. But he had joy, and he speaks of it as his — a particular gladness that was his own, sprung from his union with the Father.
And this joy he means to share. "That my joy might remain in you." Not a borrowed joy; not a manufactured joy; not the world's joy. His joy, the very gladness with which he himself walked the world, given over to you as your possession.
Do not consent to live without it. If your Christian life has been heavy, joyless, dutiful, something has gone wrong with the abiding. Go back to the Vine. Drink from his own gladness. He died that you might have life — and life full to the brim with his own joy.
From The True Vine