JOY

As I think upon joy today, I am not feeling very joyful. Too many things keep going wrong and no matter how hard I try to correct them, nothing seems to work out. And often times when I start trying so hard my mind bubbles up with a list that comes out of nowhere. This certain list, is a list of everything in the past that has gone wrong (and potentially could go wrong) and this list just hangs around mocking me. As I try hard to get rid of this list lurking over me, I find that I have no energy left to tackle the problem of the day, much less actually accomplish anything else. The enemy tries to complicate things and loves to hang around and make things worse, even things that were not really all that bad to begin with.

Today just remember that we only need to be concerned with today, no borrowing trouble from yesterday or wasting time about tomorrow. Just focus on this day, since we can’t change the past, we can only learn from it and the future is not upon us yet. Why waste energy for today on what might or might not happen tomorrow?

Jesus, takes me out of the pit, raises me up, helps me and turns my wailing (gripping and complaining) into dancing, and my heart, all of the sudden sings cheerfully, as He clothes me with joy! His joy!

Psalms 30 Psalms 51:8-12 Proverbs 17:22

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