Believers ought to be the most joyful people in the world. They have everything to live for and nothing to complain about. BUT…..more often than not, it’s believers who have no joy that make things absolutely miserable for everyone else.
What robs us of our joy? UNSATISFIED EXPECTATIONS, UNRESOLVED CONFLICT – (that’s a big one for me!) and UNREPENTED SIN (there’s alot of that out there)! That’s just a few of literally a ton of things that could potentially rob us of our joy.
Unfortunately, ”joylessness” is contagious……..if you’re not joyful, then you can count on it that you’re not going to bring joy into the lives of others. You’re just not! That’s why it’s important that we address the things that rob us of our joy!
We also talked about things that can build joy in our lives? RECOGNIZING GOD AS A JOYFUL GOD, REAFFIRMING OUR COMMITMENT TO OTHER BELIEVERS (Hanging out with the people who REALLY care about ya!), RE-IGNITING OUR PASSION TO SHARE THE GOSPEL WITH OTHERS (there’s no greater joy than seeing someone come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!!!), RELEASING YOUR PROBLEMS TO GOD!
God wants us to be joyful, He wants us to enjoy Him and He wants to enjoy us! Sometimes it’s an effort to have joy in your life, but it’s when we trade our sorrows, sickness, shame, pain for the joy of the Lord, that’s when we have victory, that’s when true JOY comes into our life!
I TRULY WANT TO LIVE A JOY (FULL) LIFE……don’t you? Let’s CHOOSE TO BE JOYFUL TODAY!
Some additional thoughts this Monday morning!
- In my opinion, yesterday’s service was the best we’ve had since I’ve been pastor at DBC.
- I want to encourage you that when you can’t sense the presence of God in your life, you can always trust his promises.
- God wants to take you from where you are in life, to where he wants you to be.
- The weather has been absolutely beautiful the last few days. Can’t wait to see what today holds!
- I laughed outloud this morning as I read this portion of my devotions Psalm 109:1-13. David went through what alot of us are going through and among other HORRIBLE things, He asked God to JUST PLEASE KILL THEM! (even I don’t have the heart to say that!)
- God is moving in an incredible way in our church and it excites me to see what He’s going to do as the weeks go by!
- Speaking of exictement, I’m excited about our new website! The address is www.daventonchurch.com right now, just our logo is on there, but hopefullywe will be up and running full force by the end of the week!
Have a great week!
IN HIS GRIP,
jon
