REJOY
For you are the fountain of life, the light by which we see. (Psalm 36:9) Take delight in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desires. (Psalm 37:4)
How is your joy? This was the question that came to mind as I read James’s challenge to consider it all joy. Or to see things as opportunities for joy. It is good to consider our joy.
Could I be more joyful? Is this joy on display? What happened to my Joy? Where is my joy? What gives me joy? It is always time to “REJOY!”
We can, and we should rejoy frequently. If we know Jesus, we know that He is the source of all joy, and that we can enter into His joy at will. We can! Yes, we can!
Some might think that I have no business, even thinking of joy when the world is in such a state! Well James said let trouble give you reason to consider it all joy.
Don’t let the devil steal your joy. Why should the troubles posed by the enemy rob us of our joy that is in Jesus? Why not take every opportunity to rejoy?
Funny thing, my computer just caught on to the idea of rejoying. Well, it looks like it was willing to accept my rejoy, but rejoying is not quite there yet. We are in that place at times. You might be reading this and thinking I need grammar help; or you might have quit reading just because you do not want to hear about choosing joy. I get that, I really do. But sometimes we just need to give things a try because we really do want joy. It is worth a little extra effort to get to that finish line.If we read the bible, we know that the joy of the Lord is our strength, and strength is a good thing, especially in troubles.
By now, you might be buffering. I say that, because as I was reading Leviticus today, my brain was buffering, so I just laid my head back and thought about buffering. We don’t like things to buffer. Our phones, televisions, computers, etc. We simply do not like that pause and we hate the freeze even more. The truth is that good things are taking place in the buffer! If the buffer works like it should, we avoid the freeze! Information is being reorganized so that it can go back to working.
Isn’t that what we need? As my brain buffered, I felt the Lord refreshing my mind. I turned to other things and thoughts that cleared the cloud. I felt joy trickling in, and I knew that I was returning to His original question of the day; how is your joy. How great is our God?
Don’t fight buffering. Enter in to it. If it freezes up, it will be even better after you reset it. When you think you can’t take it you are right. We cannot do anything without Jesus. Just reset. Our oven was not working and even though I had reset the breaker it was iffy. So, we unplugged and replugged it and I think we are working again. Ovens don’t rejoy, but when they work, we do!