Have you had your Joy Juice
today? Aren’t you thankful that each
morning there are fresh servings of joy awaiting us?!
The
Bible tells us repeatedly that a thankful heart is a good thing! When we are genuinely grateful, our whole
demeanor changes and our thought process shifts. Humility steps into our lives
and we begin to think of others…before ourselves.
Author
and speaker Barbara Johnson gives a wonderful analogy. She says: “Imagine that
we were given a dish of sand with particles of iron in it. We would look for the iron by shifting our
clumsy fingers through the sand, but we wouldn’t find much. If we took a magnet,
however, and pulled it through the sand, it would draw to itself the almost
invisible iron particles. The unthankful
heart, like the clumsy fingers, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful
heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so will the
thankful heart find heavenly blessings every time!”
When we look for those “joy gifts” all along
our path, we WILL find them. But our “gratitude
magnet” must be ready to detect God’s gifts.
Remember the beautiful passage in Lamentations 3:22-23: “It is
of the Lord's mercies that we are
not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new
every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
Look for the joy of the Lord in each new
day; humbly and gratefully accept God’s valuable gift of faithfulness.
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