Have you had your JOY JUICE today? Drink in a big serving, then pick up your
spiritual sledge hammer and begin knocking down the walls around your heart.
We began
talking yesterday about tearing down the unnecessary walls that we’ve built in
our lives. Yes, we want to protect ourselves from sadness and hurt, but many
times those same walls will also keep out the joy. Kay Warren suggests that one of the best ways
of getting rid of those walls is to focus on grace.
Keep in
mind that God doesn’t love us for following a certain set of rules or
performing rituals. He is not interested
in what all we can do for Him. He simply
loves us….because as the Bible tells us….He has “set his love upon us”. What grace!
Ephesians
1:4-5 tells us about His love for us. “Even
before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and
without fault in his eyes. God decided
in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through
Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to
do, and it gave him great pleasure.” (NLT)
Doesn’t it
make you smile to know that His love for us brings him great pleasure? The only way I can even begin to wrap my
brain around that concept is to think about the pleasure it brings me to love
my children and grandchildren. And that
must be just a thimble-full compared to how much God loves us!
May I
encourage you to begin the demolition process immediately! Tear down the walls
that are keeping you from experiencing God’s love, grace and JOY!
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