So far I have had a great Monday! It actually started on Sunday night with my devotional, and I thought while reading it "I have to share this on my blog!" So I am... :)
"Choose Life!
We will never enjoy life unless we make a quality decision to do so. Satan is an expert at stealing and our joy is one of his favorite targets. Nehemiah 8:10 tells us that the joy of the Lord is our strength. In John 10:10 we are told that "the thief" comes to kill, steal, and destroy, but that Jesus came that we might have and enjoy life. Satan is the thief, and one of the things he seeks to steal is our joy. If he can steal our joy from us, we will be weak; and when we are weak, the enemy takes advantage of us.
Weak believers are no threat to him and his work of destruction. In order to live as God intends for us to live, the first thing we must do is truly believe that it is God's will for us to experience continual joy. Then we must decide to enter into that joy. Experiencing enjoyment in our souls is vitally important to our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Proverbs 17:22 says, "A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones." It is God's will for us to enjoy life! Now it is time to decide to enter into the full and abundant life that God wills for us.
Joy and enjoyment are available just as misery is available. Righteousness and peace are available and so are condemnation and turmoil. There are blessings and curses available, and that is why Deuteronomy 30:19 tells us to choose life and blessings."
Deuteronomy 30:19
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:"
Oh, how the Lord knows what I need, when I need it. I had to share this with my mom and sister at lunch. It just really give you a whole new perspective on how Satan tries to effect your life. This is just something else to add to my growing relationship with God. Knowing that I am to be joyful in all things, and that the things around me that bring me down continuously are not just circumstances but situations that Satan is using to take my joy and make me weak.
I will choose life, and life will be so much different. So much more joyful! So I hope that you take this "Case of the Mondays" and make them MAGICAL! And remember, above all else, this is not where we belong... :)
