Well, what's the point of my life?

That was the question we asked and answered on Monday.

We talked about our joy in God and God's glory being united together in one unifying

vision of existence.

Now today we feel the question about joy from a listener named Shannon, who writes to

say this, Hello Pastor John, I attended the most recent cross conference.

Where you said something that struck me, you said that your hope for our students is

for there to be young people who are, quote, joyfully serious, end quote.

Can you explain this more and what does this look like particularly in everyday life?

What does it look like to be joyfully serious?

Well, now how shall I come at this?

It touches on so many things.

In fact, the more I thought about it, the more I thought I should write a book on this.

I should write a book called Joyful Seriousness or Serious Joy or something to try to capture

the paradox of what I mean by this.

What I'm trying to get at when I say joyful seriousness is a life that has been made serious

because of the unspeakably awesome realities of God and sin and heaven and hell and the cross

of Christ and the necessity of faith and the essential reality of holiness if we're to obtain

heaven.

In other words, the great realities of life are enormously serious and weighty and glorious

and beautiful and awesome and deep and high.

They are of such a nature that to treat them in a glib or superficial or trifling or

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