Comfort-Able to Share His JOY

         Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  There is a special serving just for you…and it will bring peace and comfort, as well as JOY!

            Many times we find ourselves right smack dab in the middle of a situation that we did not choose!  We would have avoided it at all costs, if at all possible!  Needless to say, this type of circumstance put us outside our comfort zone and we feel “out of control”.  In our own power, we feel helpless and hopeless.

            What we must realize is that God is always at work in our lives, even when we are not aware of it.  In fact, Jeremiah 1:5 says that God knew us even before we were conceived… so HE KNOWS our story—past, present and future.

  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
    before you were born I set you apart;” (Jeremiah 1:5)

            When we find ourselves in an uncomfortable place, let’s remember that God is also in that place with us!  He is more concerned about our spiritual growth than he is our comfort.  Many times it’s in those tough spots that we grow the most! As Lysa TerKeurst says:  “God’s goal isn’t to make us comfortable. His goal is to make us comfort-able—able to take the comfort we have received and give it to others.”

Listen to what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4: “Praise be to God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”

            Let’s pass along the comfort of God and experience JOY in the Lord!