Have you had your JOY JUICE today?
Drink in the BEST serving!
How often are you asked to do something and
you know it’s a good thing, but you are overwhelmed with all the other responsibilities
in your life! It’s hard for some of us to say NO, because we don’t want to
disappoint anyone. Many times we
begrudgingly say yes and then are resentful of having to fulfill that
obligation.
There are
times when we DO need to say “no”. Lysa
TerKeurst in her newest 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 will 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 many invitations. Lysa writes: “In God’s plan, you’ve got a part to play. If you know it and believe
it, you’ll live it. You’ll live your
life making decisions with the ‘Best Yes’ as your best filter. Your wisdom will help you make decisions that
will still be good tomorrow.”
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. Be a God pleaser, instead of 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"! That will
lead to a calmer, more productive and joy-filled life!
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