Sinclair Ferguson

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

So where do you really come from?

What makes you tick?

When John says in 1 John 3, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be children of God, literally the question he's saying is,

From what country does this love come from?

It's like, this is from another country, another world.

And we're back to question and answer number one.

Again, it's really, you know, even if you just learned to live by that question and answer, you would have learned a great deal.

Well, that itself is a profound question, and just as a rabbit trail, the best catechists

not only asked the question, but also asked your question.

So they followed up with it.