The Bible is full of references of joy. If you have Bible software, and you do a search on the English word “joy”, not even taking into account words like rejoice, rejoicing, and other words like that, you will find almost 200 references. In the ESV the word “joy” is used 179 times.
41 times the word joy is found int he Psalms.
78 times the word joy is found throughout the rest of the Old Testament.
The New Testament uses the word “joy” 60 times.
This is a major subject in Scripture.
That means that this is a major issue in our lives. We need to think about joy.