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Thursday, October 25, 2018

God's Best "YES" Includes Sharing His Joy


              Have you had your Joy Juice today?  Drink in God’s BEST!

 At times we are faced with decisions regarding good opportunities…and though we know they are good, we are overwhelmed with all our other responsibilities.  Many times we are asked to serve, and it’s hard for us to say NO, because we don’t want to disappoint someone. How many times have we said “YES”…only to become resentful of having to fulfill yet another obligation?  

            Sometimes we need to say “no”.  Lysa TerKeurst in her book The Best Yes  reminds us that we have all kinds of choices in life. Many of them…good!   But if we are not careful, we will say “yes” to so many good things, that we may miss God’s “best yes” for us.  We should be prayerful and careful to ask God for wisdom before we give an answer to our invitations.  Lysa writes: “In God’s plan, you’ve got a part to play. If you know that and believe it, you’ll live your life making decisions with the ‘Best Yes’ as your filter.”
 
            Proverbs 3:13 says “Blessed is the man who finds wisdom.”  May we pray, asking God for wisdom and discernment to be able to say “Yes” to the God-things and NO to even good things…if they not what God has led us to do. Let’s strive to be a God pleaser, rather than a people pleaser!  As Elisabeth Elliot writes: “The greatest JOY in all the world is obeying Christ by serving others.” 

Before answering YES to the good things, ask God to show you His BEST YES and then serve with gladness! 







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