Many of you may have experienced this but I have from my two nephews and my time in youth ministry that there are times when you are having the worst days and then a child will run up to you and give you a hug or say I love you and everything goes away. Why, why is it that a hug can help erase the grief or frustration that we experience? Because of the love, because when experience the faith and love of a child it is pure unadulterated love.
Now that we have an idea what that is like imagine that times a hundred. That is the joy we have in the worst of circumstances because we have someone who loves us with a purer love than anything on this earth. We have the love of God and that brings about a Joy unlike any other.