Have you had your Joy Juice today? You’re not “feeling it”!
Well, the good news is that joy is not an emotion.
Does that
catch you by surprise? When we’re happy,
we “feel” that emotion. Just like we do
when we’re sad. Emotions come and go. But joy is an attitude that “comes and grows”
teaches David Jeremiah!
“Joy comes
when Christ comes to live within your heart.
We can’t have the joy of Christ until we have the Christ of joy.” Psalm
35:9 says it beautifully: “And my soul shall be joyful in the Lord; it
shall rejoice in His salvation.”
C.S. Lewis
described joy like this:
“A car is made to run
on petrol (gasoline), and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on
Himself. He Himself is the fuel our
spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed
on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to
make us happy in our own way…God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart
from Himself, because it is not there.
There is no such thing!”
Are you trying to run on
something besides the joy of Jesus? What
fuels your spiritual machine? Accept the salvation that God has to freely offer
and find the attitude of continual joy.
Fuel
up and travel with joy.
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