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Friday, October 4, 2013

Open Your Heart to the JOY of Jesus



          Have you had your JOY JUICE today?   Do you have a best friend?  I’ll guess a  certain name and face popped into your mind.  Good friends are truly joyful blessings.  BUT I’d like to remind you that our BEST FRIEND should always be Jesus!

            If we don’t spend time trying to get to know Jesus by reading the scriptures and spending time in His presence, then we are not growing spiritually.  

            Robert Boyd Munger wrote an article entitled, “My Heart, Christ’s Home”. Does that describe you?  Has Jesus set up residency in your heart?  What we must all come to realize is the true devotion...

·        is not a duty. It is a delight!
·        it is not an exercise in piety. It is a privilege.
·        and it is not so much a visit as it is a homecoming.

Munger goes on to say, “Without question one of the most remarkable Christian doctrines is that Jesus Christ Himself through the presence of the Holy Spirit will actually enter a heart, settle down and be at home there.  Jesus came into the darkness of my heart (he says) and turned on the light.  He built a fire in the cold hearth and banished the chill.  He started music where there had been stillness and He filled the emptiness with His own loving, wonderful fellowship.”

            Isn’t that beautiful description of how Jesus can enter your heart and life …and become your best friend?!

            Open your heart and let Jesus come in to stay! That’s when you’ll have a heart of true, genuine JOY!


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