Never Let Your JOY Tumble Away!

            Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Don’t let your personal serving tumble away!

            If some of you are “cowboy” fans, you may remember the old song written by Bob Nolan and made popular by the Sons Of The Pioneers entitled “Tumbling Tumbleweeds”.

            It went like this:

See them tumbling down
Pledging their love to the ground
Lonely but free I'll be found
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

Cares of the past are behind
Nowhere to go but I'll find
Just where the trail will wind
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds

Chorus:

I'll keep rolling along
Deep in my heart there's a song
Here on the range I belong
Drifting along with the tumbling tumbleweeds.

            While the song was a great “cowboy anthem”, do we really want to just “tumble along” through life?  God has a purpose and a plan for each of us. He tells us in Jeremiah 29:11  “ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

            If we tumble along through life….outside of God’s plan….we will not experience a life of JOY.  However, abundant joy can be ours by allowing God to take our past mistakes and transform us into  JOYful Christians with a song in our hearts.