Have you had your JOY JUICE
today? May I suggest that you go out of
your way to share some with a stranger?
Strangers
come into our lives on a daily basis!
When we go to the store, many of the fellow shoppers and clerks are
strangers to us. We sit in church some
Sundays with people we don’t know on a personal level. As we rush about our busy days, we encounter
many people in need of a smile and an encouraging word. Do we go out of our way
to share the JOY of the Lord with them? Or do we wear our blinders, looking straight
ahead with our own agenda in mind. Often
we don’t know what to say, so we say nothing at all!
Consider
how many times we may have disappointed our Lord by not taking advantage of the
“divine appointments” he has scheduled!
Remember that young mother with the fretful baby—trying to check out at
the grocery store? She may simply have needed a sympathetic smile and a word of
understanding.
What about the
older gentleman who was having trouble walking from his car into the doctor’s
office? Should we have offered an extra
hand to help him feel steady on his feet…and maybe open that heavy door for him
as he entered? We never know when a
small act of kindness may be the healing touch that a stranger needs to make it
through their day.
Ephesians
4:32 was one of the Bible verses many of us learned as children…. “Be ye
kind, one to another.” That
applies to strangers, too! Let’s go out
of our way to share God’s kindness today.
Have the gift of JOY ready for all the
divine appointments God has lined up for YOU specifically!
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