Sinclair Ferguson

It's because we're living for completely different motivations and ends.

Our end, our goal is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.

And one, the non-Christian thinks glorifying God is the abolition of my joy.

Whereas the catechism is teaching us, no, that's what gives us joy.

And the other thing that I think many non-Christians think is, there's no way I would become a Christian.

It is a joyless life.

And the catechism is saying, no, actually, it's the very reverse of that.

It is truly the joy-filled life.

Now, I'm Scottish, right?

So I sometimes have to say, we Scottish Christians enjoy this so much.

We don't want to waste our energy showing it by smiling all the time.

But joy does not need to be obnoxious, happy, happy, happy, but just a something about us.

So you've maybe heard me say, when we lived in Texas and in South Carolina, I loved riding on the elevators, what we call the lifts.

I don't know what they call them in Australia, the lifts.

And just engaging with conversation.

And then when it came to my floor to get out, whether I was going up or down, sometimes people, puzzled by the accent,

would say, well, where do you come from?

And I would always like step out of the elevator at that point and then turn around and say, Columbia, South Carolina, as the doors were closing and see, you know, like there's something I'm not getting here.

And I've, you know, I've often thought, you know, that's how we should be as Christians.

There should be a kind of