{"id":14635,"date":"2026-05-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=14635"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T13:51:49","slug":"joy-that-cannot-be-taken-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/joy-that-cannot-be-taken-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy that Cannot Be Taken Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-12th.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-12th.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-12th-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-12th-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-12th-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/May-12th-180x180.png 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus doesn\u2019t dismiss our pain; He names it: grief. The Lord never asks us to pretend that \u201cwe\u2019re good.\u201d God wants an honest relationship with us. I\u2019m in a season of questioning; I have doubts. When questions go unanswered, the Lord seems silent. But I\u2019m doing what I know to do: maintain my walk with the Lord. Keep getting up. Keep reading the Bible. Keep journaling my prayers. Keep talking to God with my heart. And then I trust, and I go about my day, doing what I know to do, trusting the Lord for the rest of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faith doesn\u2019t ignore sorrow; it walks through it with hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then God gives us a promise that shifts everything: a heavenly reunion awaits us, one that will restore and redeem us. Today\u2019s sorrows will pass, and so will tomorrows, but one day, we\u2019ll enter the gates of heaven, and the struggles of this world will no longer affect us as we bask in the glory of the Lord for all eternity. Because of Christ, we have hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What feels like an ending isn\u2019t the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through Jesus, we have a joy born out of restored relationships, fulfilled promises, and realized hope. No one can touch the divine joy of the Lord. Untouchable joy doesn\u2019t fade; others can\u2019t control it. Thieves can\u2019t steal joy rooted in Christ, hardship can\u2019t erase it, and loss can\u2019t take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Remember, when seasons of sorrow come, God always writes a \u201cnext\u201d filled with joy. A secure joy, not fragile or passing, a joy no one can take from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Reflection:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>In seasons of grief, what promise from God can you hold onto that helps you look beyond the pain and trust in the joy ahead?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Joy Thought:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In seasons of sorrow, God always writes a \u201cnext\u201d filled with joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-minute read. Jesus doesn\u2019t dismiss our pain; He names it: grief. The Lord never asks us to pretend that \u201cwe\u2019re good.\u201d God wants an honest relationship with us. I\u2019m in a season of questioning; I have doubts. When questions go unanswered, the Lord seems silent. But I\u2019m doing what I know to do: maintain my&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/joy-that-cannot-be-taken-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joy that Cannot Be Taken Away<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14635"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14640,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14635\/revisions\/14640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}