Hey guys, happy Monday. Welcome to relatable. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Thank you

for starting your week with me. Today we are going to talk about happiness, joy, happiness versus

joy. Now, if you grew up in a Christian home, if you grew up going to Sunday school, if you went

to a Christian school, then you have probably heard people talk about the difference between happiness

and joy, or even if you've just been a Christian for a little bit, you've heard people talk about

the difference between happiness and joy. This is something that we're pretty well versed in. I

remember probably it was middle school that I heard people say, oh, you know, there's a difference

in happiness and a difference in joy. We hear that happiness is more of a superficial desire.

That happiness is really something that's more of the flesh, not necessarily simple, but something

that is fleeting, something that is circumstantial, and then we hear on the other side of that, that

joy is something that outlasts our circumstances. Joy is something that is steady joy is something that

comes from Christ. Therefore, we should pursue and latch on to joy rather than happiness. My question

is, is there really a difference between happiness and joy? According to God's Word, are we

correctly defining what happiness is according to what God says, happiness is. Is this a distinction

that we are making based on the world's definition of happiness and joy, or is this a distinction

that we're making based on the Bible's definition of happy and joy? And honestly, I've heard both.

I had a Bible teacher in high school tell me, you know, a lot of people will tell you there's a

difference between happiness and joy. There's not a difference between happiness and joy. It's just,

you know, a difference in semantics. It's just kind of superficial differences in

distinctions. And then, of course, you have people who, like I said, said, no, there's a difference. Joy

is something that is really unconditional. It comes from Christ happiness is something that is

fleeting. Happiness is okay, but it's not something that you should necessarily pursue. But I really

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