Have you
had your JOY JUICE today? Drinking in
the JOY of the Lord keeps us from building walls in our lives that shouldn’t be
there!
Have you built walls around your heart to
protect yourself from being hurt? Many
of us do, because of things that have happened in the past. We have a tendency to want to block out
anything that may be hard or have the possibility of bringing emotional hurt
into our lives.
As I was
reading a new book by Kay Warren entitled Choose Joy, Because Happiness Isn’t Enough,
I came across a quote by Jim Rohn that rings so true. He says: “The
walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keep out the joy.”
While all of us would admit that
we want to avoid sadness if at all possible, do we want to keep JOY out of
lives? I certainly don’t! We need MORE joy….not less of it! Here are four suggestions by Kay Warren that
will help us to nurture and build joy in our souls, instead of building up walls
that keep the joy out:
- Focus on Grace
- Trust God for the Future
- Balance your life.
- Practice acceptance of your own imperfections.
Let’s allow
God’s grace to tear down the walls we have built around our hearts so that we
might experience His JOY fresh and new every day.
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