The Anchor of Joy

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Religion & Spirituality, Devotional, Joy, Solid Joys, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, 163859, Jesus, Daily Devotional, John Piper

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.

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0:00.0	January 21, the anchor of joy.
0:06.0	Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account?
0:15.0	Matthew 511.
0:17.0	Do not rejoice in this that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.
0:24.9	Luke 10.20.
0:27.2	Jesus revealed a secret that protects our happiness from the threat of suffering and the threat of success.
0:36.1	That secret is this. Great is your reward in heaven. And the sum of that
0:43.8	reward is enjoying the fullness of the glory of Jesus Christ, John 1724. Jesus protects our happiness from suffering when he says,
0:57.6	Blessed are you when others revile you, persecute you, and utter all kinds of evil against you
1:05.2	falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.
1:12.3	Matthew 5.11 through 12.
1:14.9	Our great reward in heaven rescues our joy from the threat of persecution and reviling.
1:24.1	He also protects our joy from success when he says,
1:29.3	Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you,
1:33.3	but rejoice that your names are written in heaven, Luke 1020.
1:39.3	The disciples were tempted to put their joy in ministry success.
1:45.0	Even the demons are subject to us in your name, Luke 1017.
1:50.0	But that would have severed their joy from its only sure anchor.
1:57.0	So, Jesus protects their joy from the threat of success by promising the far greater reward
2:04.4	of heaven.
2:06.7	Rejoice in this, that your names are written in heaven.
2:12.1	Your inheritance is infinite, eternal, sure.
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