I have a simple question that is burdening my heart of late. “WHERE IS THE JOY?” We have been given the greatest gift mankind has ever known through the blood of Christ. We have an eternity to look forward to in which we can know and be known by our creator face to face. We have assurances through His HOLY WORD that he loves us and is with us even now. So again I ask, “WHERE IS THE JOY?”
I get it… Life is sometimes and even often hard. Believe me I see it all the time working with the fire department. There are times when our circumstances can steal our temporal happiness. However, there is nothing (no matter how bad) in this world that has to power to steal the JOY of those who’s names are written in the book of life. That is something we as followers of Christ have to willingly give up.
I’m saying this because it hurts my soul when I see fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who have seemingly given up their joy. It’s like every time you see them they have something to complain about, nothing is ever going their way, and somehow somewhere the sky must be falling. (Again, I’m not trying to belittle true tragedies that we all face from time to time that become overwhelming.) It’s just that some folks seem to wallow in it…
What ultimately happens is that over time, many of those folks loose sight of the joy that we have in Jesus Christ and they become… JOY SUCKERS. They develop a negative attitude about life and after a while they start spreading it around as if doing so will somehow validate how they feel.
God has called us to so much more. He created us for a purpose! That purpose is to know Him, Serve Him, and Enjoy Him forever. So I encourage you… if you feel like you have lost your JOY, remember the big picture. You don’t have to define your existence by your sense of victimhood or by a difficult circumstance. What Christ did on the cross set us free from all of that so we can live in the freshness of a JOY FILLED LIFE so I urge you…
GRAB IT AND RUN WITH IT AND HAVE SOME FUN ALONG THE WAY!!!!!!!
I get it… Life is sometimes and even often hard. Believe me I see it all the time working with the fire department. There are times when our circumstances can steal our temporal happiness. However, there is nothing (no matter how bad) in this world that has to power to steal the JOY of those who’s names are written in the book of life. That is something we as followers of Christ have to willingly give up.
I’m saying this because it hurts my soul when I see fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who have seemingly given up their joy. It’s like every time you see them they have something to complain about, nothing is ever going their way, and somehow somewhere the sky must be falling. (Again, I’m not trying to belittle true tragedies that we all face from time to time that become overwhelming.) It’s just that some folks seem to wallow in it…
What ultimately happens is that over time, many of those folks loose sight of the joy that we have in Jesus Christ and they become… JOY SUCKERS. They develop a negative attitude about life and after a while they start spreading it around as if doing so will somehow validate how they feel.
God has called us to so much more. He created us for a purpose! That purpose is to know Him, Serve Him, and Enjoy Him forever. So I encourage you… if you feel like you have lost your JOY, remember the big picture. You don’t have to define your existence by your sense of victimhood or by a difficult circumstance. What Christ did on the cross set us free from all of that so we can live in the freshness of a JOY FILLED LIFE so I urge you…
GRAB IT AND RUN WITH IT AND HAVE SOME FUN ALONG THE WAY!!!!!!!
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