Day Twenty Six

Everybody loves to laugh or at least should.  This world is filled with humor, you just have to look for it.  I know that there are days when you feel down or just blue but these are the days that you need to seek out joy.

Joy is essential to our life.  Jesus spoke of this many times.  Now joy doesn't just mean that you go around laughing all day.  It means to ponder on the goodness of God and the goodness of the things He has created in the world.

If you watch the news it is always full of the tragic tales of the things that are happening around the world.  Though they may be true, it can not be all of what you consume.  I am sure that you have heard the phrase "you are what you eat."  Well, you will also be greatly influenced by what you hear and what you watch.

Focus you ears on good things.  Lead your eyes to good things.  Read the Word of God and refresh your mind.  Focus on the blessings that God has given you.  It doesn't matter what you may be going through, there is good to seek and to find out there.  But the best is the joy that the Lord has given you freely.  It is the joy of the Lord that is our strength.  Your debt has been paid and all the help you will ever need is just an ask, seek, and knock away.

Listen , you must keep up on the current events of the world and you must keep up on the Word of God.  Without the Word of God and without Jesus you will not have the joy that He has set before you.  With out Him, your joy will be fleeting and counterfeit.  It will be like old shoes, they may fit but they are full of holes, stained, tattered, and stink.

References:

Nehemiah 8:10 (New International Version)

 ¹⁰ Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength."

Psalm 19:8 (New International Version)

 ⁸ The precepts of the LORD are right,
       giving joy to the heart.
       The commands of the LORD are radiant,
       giving light to the eyes.

Matthew 7:7 (New International Version)

Ask, Seek, Knock

 ⁷"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:8 (New International Version)

⁸For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.