No Fooling! Spread Contagious JOY!

            Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  No fooling….it’s the best!

            Are you contagious? In the GOOD sense of the word! To be a contagious Christian, we must live our lives in such a way that others will want what we have.  When others are around you, do they want to “catch” your JOY GERMS?  What a difference this world would see if we would all be contagious with the JOY of JESUS…so contagious that we caused an epidemic!

             Usually when we use the word “epidemic” we think of something like the flu or some dreaded disease. But let’s consider a different kind of epidemic….one that spreads the JOY of the Lord in a contagious manner.  Let me warn you, though!  If this JOY disease becomes an epidemic, there will be a lot of BARFing going on.  B-A- R-F = Be A Real Follower.  In order to be contagious, you must be REAL, authentic, genuine!  Even in times of difficulty, “The JOY of the Lord is our strength” (Nehemiah 8:10).

            One dictionary describes an epidemic as: “affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.”  When we have been bitten by the “joy bug”, we will want to be so contagious that JOY will spread from person to person “in a locality where the JOY DISEASE is not permanently prevalent”.  Where is that?  Just about EVERYWHERE!  In our homes, our places of work, at school…in our churches and throughout our community!

            May the “joy bug” bite you and fill your heart with a passion to spread the joy of the Lord in epidemic proportions!