His Secret Purpose.....of JOY!

Have you had your JOY JUICE today?  Rest assured that God has prepared a special serving with you in mind! Don’t pass it up and miss His purpose for you.

            From the very beginning, God had a specific purpose for you and me.  Listen to the beautiful way Ann Voskamp writes about it in her book One Thousand Gifts:

“His intent, since He bent low and breathed His life into the dust of our lungs, since He kissed us into being, has never been to slyly orchestrate our ruin.  He does have surprising, secret purposes.  I open a Bible and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced.  It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real.  His love letter forever silences any doubts. As 1 Corinthians 2:7 says: ‘His secret purpose framed from the very beginning is to bring us to our full glory’.”

            That one scripture alone should encourage us.  Even if we find ourselves in a place of deep sorrow and pain, discouragement or depression, we can lean on His “everlasting arms”—knowing that there is a “secret purpose framed from the very beginning” of time.  God desires to bring each of us to our FULL GLORY!  And I’m double-sure that includes abundant JOY!

            Open your heart, whether sorrowful or satisfied, and get ready for Him to strengthen, sustain and fill you with His peace and JOY.