Have you had
your JOY JUICE today? Try offering some
to a stranger!
It’s sad
but true; in today’s world, we’ve attached a negative connotation to the word
“stranger”. We have to teach our children
to be careful….not to talk to strangers and certainly NEVER to go anywhere with
someone they do not know.
But, let’s
not forget that there are many, many good people in our world that are
strangers only because we’ve never met them.
A few months ago I went on a ladies’ prayer retreat. Most of those women
were strangers. As the weekend progressed, we discovered that we had at least
one thing in common….we loved the Lord and because of that common love, we
immediately made a heart connection. By the end of the retreat, we were no
longer strangers but “spiritual sisters”.
Isn’t it
wonderful how God can do that? He can
take perfect strangers and bring them together in such a way, that they feel as
if they’ve known each other for a long, long time. It’s all because of His Love. 1
John 4:19 tells us: “We love because he first loved us.”
Today, may we be
challenged to look for strangers God brings into our life. That person in the checkout lane at the
grocery store; someone we meet at the Post Office; a person who is sitting in
the waiting room at the dentist’s office.
Whoever it is, consider that that God may have set up a “divine
appointment”. Share His love and joy with
that person. And may His joy be multiplied in your heart and life.
Enjoy the sweet JOY JUICE of
Jesus and be intentional about offering some to a stranger today.
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