I don’t always choose right. Sometimes I get that nudge and shove it away, thinking it’s just a petty distraction. But I am trying to keep my ears and eyes open and discern what’s a distraction and what’s a real call.
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When we feel joy, it should spread through us and not stop. Our joy in the Lord should explode—into a smile, into our eyes, and keep going! Our whole body should radiate that love and light! Our joy doesn’t depend on emotion—it isn’t rooted in happiness or mere feelings. We can feel joy even in our darkest, most painful hours.
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Thinking about the Bible’s Joshua, told by God to recite his instructions day and night, reminds me of the theater scripts I’d labor over as a teen. Back then, I’d recite my lines until they were second-nature. If I got stage fright, I didn’t have to worry—all those long weeks of reciting just took over, no problem. What if I did that with the Bible, too?
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I learned an important truth in an insanely busy season: I can’t worry much about my own problems and stresses if I’m too busy taking care of others. How embracing “service over self” helped me find happiness and learn to love God better.
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Hindsight often makes everything so clear. But most of us are so focused on our present concerns that we usually do not see God’s hand at work creating something new in us. It’s only later that we look back and see what we missed.
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The last thing we think to do sometimes is turn to the Lord. In our pride, we think we should be able to handle the demands of life like a champion, slaying obstacles with ease and taking challenges in stride. But here’s the truth: I’m not my savior—Jesus is. My blog on remembering to cry out to the Lord, not fix things myself.
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Being a Christian involves a perspective shift. No longer does the world revolve around me! My blog on shrugging off my old, self-centered ways and wrapping myself in the virtues of Christ.
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Today I’m doing something a little different on my blog: an interview with one of my fellow writer-friends, Chip Mattis, whose new children’s book, Under the Dancing Tree (Elk Lake Publishing), is about to launch.
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Yet why, as we navigate our days with God at the wheel, do we not always allow ourselves that same sort of peace and safe reassurance that all will be as God wills it, perfectly in His time? The right time—just as He has planned?
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