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Friday, March 30, 2018

Fuel Up with JOY!


             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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