Serve With a Joyful Heart

                        Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  If you have read Henry Blackaby’s  Experiencing God, you may remember that he tells us that “Jesus watched to see where the Father was at work and joined Him there.”   According to John 5:19, “the Son did only what he saw his Father doing.”

            So often, we make our plans without consulting God, don’t we?  We come up with a great idea, program or project and we expect God just to come along with us…without considering that His plan may not be anything like ours. We need to “watch and see where God is working and join Him there.”  This involves prayer and discernment.

            When we join God where He is already at work, author Joanna Weaver says,  “Service becomes a delight rather than a distraction. It becomes a natural overflow of our relationship with God rather than one more duty to keep us from what we really want to do.”

            Let’s ask God to show us where He is at work…and then, let’s willingly join Him there. Let’s pray that He will open the eyes of our hearts so that we will be able to recognize those “divine appointments” that He will bring to us, day by day.  If we are willing to be His vessel, He will show us what to do and when to do it….as well as give us a JOYFUL spirit as we serve.

Let’s spread the joy of the Lord by joining God where He is already at work…and let’s serve with a joyful heart!