NO MORE OF THAT!

God is always doing his work in me.  Always!!  When I get down and filled with wondering sometimes I can forget to really reach out to God.  Sometimes I can get caught up in myself and fail to get down and real before God.  I mean really real before him.  Maybe it's because I don't want to see my own failures and my own mistakes but it is God who knows me inside and out.  He never even thought about leaving me in my own messes.  You love me Jesus, and walked right into my sin and washed my feet.  You, a King would wash my feet.  I cannot begin to say how thankful I am for Jesus love for me.  I cannot even begin to imagine the love that Jesus has for me.

This morning God spoke to me through his word.  He spoke to me and reminded me to rejoice in the Lord, and then said it again.  "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice."  I know why God said it twice - because I need to hear it twice.  Circumstances will always be there and I can get caught up in trying to work things out my way but that never gets us very far does it?  NO MORE OF THAT!

Nehemiah 8:10
"Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat and drink sweet wine and send portions to anyone who has nothing ready, for this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

We cannot have the joy of the Lord without his strength and we cannot have the strength of the Lord without his joy.  Seek his face and he will surely fill you up with his joy and his strength.

John 15:11 "These things I have spoken unto you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy might be full."

What a thought - that our joy might be full.  Imagine being just full of the joy of the Lord!  That is what I want today...and tomorrow...and the next...to be full of the joy of the Lord.