1. Joy is the inevitable result of gentleness. 2Gentleness means that fear is now impossible, and what could come to interfere with joy? 3The open hands of gentleness are always filled. 4The gentle have no pain. 5They cannot suffer. 6Why would they not be joyous? 7They are sure they are beloved and must be safe. 8Joy goes with gentleness as surely as grief attends attack. 9God’s teachers trust in Him. 10And they are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can come to them. 11They hold His gifts and follow in His way, because God’s Voice directs them in all things. 12Joy is their song of thanks. 13And Christ looks down on them in thanks as well. 14His need of them is just as great as theirs of Him. 15How joyous it is to share the purpose of salvation!