Walk Through The Door of Joy...NO EXCUSES!

            Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Excuses, excuses!

            Why do we waste time thinking up excuses? You know, an excuse is NOT a reason….it’s just an explanation designed to avoid guilt or negative judgment.

           Rudyard Kipling wrote: “We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."  Excuses make us fall short of achieving our goals. In the spiritual context, has God ever led you to a task and you responded: “Oh, I can’t do that!”  Then you give God an excuse?

            Moses did exactly that when God told him that he was the man He had chosen to lead the Israelites out of Egypt. Moses didn't want the job…so he gave God his list of excuses. The first excuse is one that we all will recognize. Moses suggested that God had the wrong guy for the job….he didn’t feel qualified.  Listen to what he said, in Exodus 3:11-12: "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?" And God said, "I will be with you.”

            Has God ever given you a task that you felt you were unqualified to fulfill? Just as God answered Moses, He also says to us: "I will be with you."   You see, what we lack, God will supply.  Let’s quit making excuses and start spreading  the JOY of the Lord today!

            Remember, we have NO EXCUSE regarding that door of opportunity God has opened for us. Walk through it, trusting that where God guides, He joyfully provides!