Are you happy or joyful? Happi-ness is like being happy of what is HAPPE-ning around you, in your life. I'm happy I just got a new job, I'm happy because I just got engaged. Then what happened when the HAPPE-nings in your life turned upside down? Don't depend on what is happening in your life, depends on the satisfaction of God's love that is Joy. Joy comes from within, an internal and eternal peace from within that no matter what happened you are assured that you are love by God. Jesus said to His disciples, John 16:22-24New King James Version (NKJV)22 Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you. 23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. May your joy be full in Jesus today and for the rest if your lives, stopped depending your happiness from the things around you, people around you or begged love from the people you want to be in your life, or career you are working so hard. Starting fulfilling an unexplanable joy found only in the comforting love of Jesus. True Joy comes from Jesus because true joy comes forth only after a great sorrow. Those who went through great pain and sorrow has the most Joy after. That is why we need Jesus to be truly Joyful. Because only God can fully heal anyone from great sorrow and pain😊😊😊 Have a full of Joy monday! John 15:1-8 (NKJV) The True Vine 15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;[a] and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. God prunes so we can grow beautifully and the less we get the more we bear fruits. I always wonder during school days when the care takers prunes and cuts our yellowtops plants in the school while actually it still look good and just went high. Then they will cut it in one level and amazingly it will grow back with much brighter colors. In verse 2 Jesus said that anything that don't bear fruits will be taken away. In our mind we might think, yeah! They just deserve it. But going on we will read the part when Jesus said that those who bear fruits He will prune. Then we might say, God! We are bearing fruit how come you still put a knife or pruning tools to chop us off. I can be painful you know? Why do You need to take and cut? Is that what I get from bearing fruit? Well them that is exactly what God wants to do, he wants to shape us in the best shape that we can get and while bearing fruits due time there can also be some unwanted grass and unhealthy elements that grow alongside with us. He needs to take it off so we can continue to grow beautifully. Do you have some stuff in your life that needs to be chop off for you to bear fruit and grow? Some vices that needed to quit, bad habit that needs to turn away from, immoral or unwholesome relationship, unhealthy lifestyle? Whichever it is God will sure prune you until you thing you have less or even left with nothing at all but God, then you will realize while you have less there is more opportunity and space to bear more. 😊😊😊 It's already 6 in the evening, for us the day is almost over, just almost but in jewish time this is really the end of the day when the sun begins to set and the sky begins to get dark that is the start of the new day. I don't know what happened to your day, if you turned out to be satisfied and happy or disappointed with your day but whatever happened to your day you have to remember that today you are blessed because you are alive. That each day that you wakes up in the morning is already a blessing. Life is a gift from God which is for us to decide how to live. What did you chose to do today? I hope you are thankful for your life to the creator of life. I hope you have chosen to live today for God. I hope you chose to bless others through your life because today you are truly blessed. You are forgiven. Smile! Share that happiness to the world. Lamentations 3:22-23New King James Version (NKJV)22 Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, They are new every morning; The blessings from the Lord is actually out open for everyone its just that sometimes we chose to be somewhere we can't see it. Covered by our grief we have in our hearts, our emotions, our pride and ego, and the shadows of our past. Soren Kierkegaard told a parable of a rich man riding in a lighted carriage driven by a peasant who sat behind a horse in the cold and dark outside. Precisely because he sat near the artificial light inside, the rich man missed the panorama of stars outside, a view gloriously manifest to the peasant. If you will think of it the sky is wide open for everyone to appreciate the beauty of the night with those sparkling constellations; but the rich man missed it because he chose to be somewhere he can't even appreciated the view outside. In life we sometimes tend to do the same. Remember! God promised to prosper us. In jeremiah 29:11 "For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope." Just know where you stand at the moment. Are you depending on Gods promises to your life and see things according to Gods standard of life? Or are you hiding behind the shadows of your own mistakes, past and pride? Go out! Look up! He is more than willing to bless you. You just need to move and seek of it. #readingtherumoursofanotherworld #Reflections #prayertime |
AuthorI am a FOLLOWER OF CHRIST Cleverly disguised as an Architect who loves to share my experiences and encounters with God in every simple and possible way to the people out there who needs to hear Gods' greatness and goodness. Archives
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