Remind your mind.
How often I forget that life is designed to be a joyful experience. Yes, it has up and downs. Yes, I am sometimes sad, but the joy remains. However, I can plan and attend a pity party faster than you can say my name. This, I am learning is a trick of the mind. The mind confuses us with all its options and choices. I can go left, …no right. How about up, …no down. It’s enough to make us crazy. Yet, the heart only speaks the truth. We have been told this for years, “follow your heart.” Somehow, we forget. But this morning I am reminding my mind (lol) that life is meant to be joyous. God gave His only son, Jesus, so that our sins don’t have any power over my life… if we choose to believe. God has provided a place, a spiritual dumping ground, where we can leave all our worries and burdens. And God loves us so much that He avails Himself to us all day everyday, through prayer.
Now with a friend like that, why wouldn’t life be joyous? Look at these life gifts! They are designed for the masses yet tailored individually for each of us, that chooses to not only accept them but to also utilize them. The songwriter says it best.
What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear!What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer! O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear,All because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.
