JOYful Strength for the Race of Life

Have you had your Joy Juice today?  Drink in the JOY of the Lord and receive strength to make it through the day!

            Do you ever feel that you are in a race?  Some days there’s so much to do and we have only a limited amount of time to accomplish it all!  There are responsibilities on the job, chores at home, necessary tasks in raising children and looking after our families.  Then there are church and civic activities, weddings, funerals, birthday parties, yard work---and at times we really want to do something for sheer entertainment.  Most of us push really hard to pack it all into our day.  Even the strongest of people get tired!

            What a blessing it is to know that our God never grows weary!  His power and strength never diminish.  His strength is OUR source of strength.  For proof of that, let’s read in God’s inerrant Word from Isaiah 40: 28-31:

Do you not know?    Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.
 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
 but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary,
   they will walk and not be faint.

            Just reading that truth fills me with renewed strength, how about you? 

 Always remember that no matter what we’re facing in the days to come, we know that God will give us His strength to carry on!  What a JOYful promise!