"Oh there is THUNDER outside"

2 Corinthians 6:10
New Living Translation (NLT)
10 Our hearts ache, but we always have joy. We are poor, but we give spiritual riches to others. We own nothing, and yet we have everything.

Captivated but no longer bound by chains left at an empty grave the sinner and the sacred resolved.
Let all of creation sing with me now lift up your voice and lay your burden down.
Let all of creation sing with me now fill up the heavens let his glory resound.

So, I finally GET the verse above! Okay so like happiness is based on the situation, the circumstance, the outwardly elements that have the ability to make you happy. Happiness is based on the external things. Therefore happiness, is temporary. It doesn't last all that long because it is based on everything else that may be affecting you at the moment. For example, I was about to go walk/running just to get out of the house when my uncle said Oh there is THUNDER outside. Now this made me more unhappy than I was earlier. See I was depending on some sort of exercise to make me happy. I was like aww man really? Okay, NOW what am I going to do?!

However, despite the current unhappiness I could still experience joy. Why? Well it is because joy is internal. Joy comes from Jesus. Joy isn't temporary. Joy isn't based on the fact of me running or staying inside. Joy is simply the evidence of God's presence in my life. It's him filling me with his Holy Spirit and one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit happens to be joy. There are nine fruits of the Holy Spirit, love, joy,peace,patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control. If we have the love of God in us we can always always be joyful. My heart may be breaking, I may feel broken, and I may not know how to keep pressing forward, but I can always have joy, for God has blessed me with it. He has filled me with his joy and his joy can make me complete.

The last verse reminds me of the song you are my passion by jesus culture. My strength in life is that I am yours, my soul delights because I am yours. I am his. I belong to Jesus. I belong to Jesus. I belong to Jesus. I belong to Jesus. I may have nothing, but I will always have everything because I will always have Jesus and he is all I need.

John 15:9-17
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.