JOYfully Stroll Beside the Still Waters with HIM!

          Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Don’t get too busy to drink your personal serving. 

            If each of us listed our daily activities on a sheet of paper, we might truly be surprised at how much we try to accomplish in one day’s time!  Come to think of it, that might not be such a bad idea.  If we kept a log for a few days, then we could pinpoint those things we “must do” and those things that could be postponed or cut out all together!  We’d quickly be able to see our priorities!

            May I ask you a personal question?  Can you sense that your priorities are probably out of order?  If GOD is not first, then all the rest will keep us running without a purpose.  But if we allow God to be our shepherd, then we experience a “spiritual peace and rest” that can come only from knowing Him.

            Remember the words of the 23^rd Psalm? “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.  He leadeth me beside the still waters.”  

Doesn’t that scripture give you a vision of peace and rest….to lie down in green pastures and to stroll beside the quiet, still waters?  That’s where God wants to meet us each day.  Let’s take a least a few minutes every day to commune with the Lord; then maybe our days won’t feel so much like a treadmill….Running fast, but going nowhere!

            Take the time to “lie down in those green pastures” and experience God’s rest and JOY as you stroll beside the still waters with Him.