Empower your Day in Just Seconds
Grantley Morris
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The extent to which we let ourselves be tossed around by how we feel and what is currently happening, is the extent to which we will fail to have continual joy. In the words of Scripture, to obey Gods directive to be joyful always, (1 Thessalonians 5:16) is possible only to the extent that we obey Gods other directives, such as:
2 Corinthians 5:7 We live by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 4:18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. . . .
Colossians 3:1-2 . . . set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. We are not to lounge around waiting for God to zap us with joy, any more than we should wait for God to give us a desire to pray. Joy is a decision, not an emotion. Like choosing to love someone who hates us and has hurt us, joy is stubbornly choosing to be like God even when every natural impulse surging within us rebels against it.
Taken from Christian Joy: The Secret Revealed
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