Catch the JOY Germ!

Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  It’s just what you need to stay SPIRITUALLY healthy!

            When fall and winter approach we begin to dread flu and cold season.  We do everything we can to avoid contracting the germs and viruses that cause us to become sick. 

• We wash our hands more often,
• Avoid those who are sneezing and coughing,
• Wipe off surfaces with disinfectants 
• and a number of other precautionary measures…just trying to stay well.

            But there’s one “germ” that I hope and pray more people “catch”.  I like to call it the “JOY GERM”!  If we are bitten by the JOY bug, we’ll start regurgitating the JOY of the Lord everywhere we go.  And if enough of us catch it, there will be such an outpouring of JOY that the only way we could describe it, would be to call it an EPIDEMIC OF JOY! 

One dictionary describes an epidemic as: affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.

What a blessing if many persons at the same time would accept the JOY of the Lord.  God wants to pour out a double portion of his JOY into our lives.  When we’ve been bitten by the JOY bug, we’ll be on a mission to “spread it from person to person in localities where JOY is not permanently prevalent.”  And that will lead to an epidemic of JOY!

            As Nehemiah 8:10 reminds us: “The JOY of the Lord is our strength!”

            Catch the JOY of the Lord and be contagious everywhere you go!