selfish joy

This is a real picture of our universe.... awesome isn't it?

Selfish joy is actually pretty easy to find.  Here's a small test.   Ask yourself if you need to have your needs met before those around you?  If you said yes, then you have selfish joy.  Selfish joy can only be described as something that only makes you happy and if others are happy around you because of that "something" then that's just a bonus but for the most part it doesn't matter if they're happy or not.  John Piper describes so many beautiful things in his last chapter and then he asks, "How could I stand before a setting sun, between the mountain range and the vastness of the sea, and think that everlasting joy should come from making much of me?"  Just look around you at the creation that God has given us to enjoy.  Look at how beautiful those things are that He crafted into perfect beauty that only He can manifest.  How can we sit back and let those people around us not enjoy as much as we do, the wonderful universe that God made?  We need to spread this joy and love to those who have yet to experience it.  May it be in your home, work, mission, friendships, doesn't matter.  We need to let the light of Christ shine through us so we are not harboring the selfish joy but we are freely giving the gift of joy.  Imagine all those people who have never heard of Christ?  Imagine yourself, if you had never heard of Christ?  What would life be like if you did not know who Christ was?  How devastating is that?  So release that selfish joy and GIVE the joy to those around you and across the world.  This is a commandment of God's is to "Go and make disciples of all nations."  He called us to do this.  Now the real question is are sitting stagnant with your selfish joy or are you "making disciples of all nations?"