{"id":114040,"date":"2024-12-09T03:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114040"},"modified":"2024-12-09T03:08:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T09:08:19","slug":"the-pursuit-of-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=114040","title":{"rendered":"The Pursuit of Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As believers, we have directly experienced the joy that comes through faith in Christ and the gospel&rsquo;s transforming work. There is also an accompanying indescribable sense of joy that undergirds every area of life. Even amid suffering, we have hope that transcends this temporal world and elevates our desires to that which is eternal and spiritual. In trying to find language to capture this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2024\/12\/09\/the-pursuit-of-joy\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As believers, we have directly experienced the joy that comes through faith in Christ and the gospel&#8217;s transforming work. There is also an accompanying indescribable sense of joy that undergirds every area of life. Even amid suffering, we have hope that transcends this temporal world and elevates our desires to that which is eternal and spiritual. In trying to find language to capture this experience, I would describe joy as the state of delight in God. The pursuit of joy is the pursuit of God. Let\u2019s explore this further together. Continue Reading \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":114042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[279],"tags":[660,142],"class_list":["post-114040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblical-counseling-coalition-bcc","tag-joy","tag-uncategorized","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cropped-bcc-site-icon-1-32x32-4.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114043,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114040\/revisions\/114043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}