There's something about waking up in the morning without feeling any joy, and knowing you have to move forward in your day through school and work. It's really difficult. Days like this I sincerely want to just stay in bed and let the day go buy.
But instead I make it a priority to fight for joy.
Fighting for joy is so much more difficult than what you might realize. It's not say, "I will be joyful" or "I will have joy," but rather it's running to God and committing my day, my every moment, my joy, to Him. Today in the little bit of quite time I mustered this morning, I cried out asking for that. I asked for joy. In the midst of asking God to give me joy, I realized it's not that I need joy, because joy is already in my heart. God's placed joy in each of our hearts, we are just responsible for living that joy out and making it ours.
In the midst of that moment, I realized I should be praying a little differently. It then turned into committing my entire day and everything within it to Him, and then asking that He help me be joyful through the entire day and in every moment. I have so much to have joy for. So many things to be thankful for. I want to run after joy. I want to be joyful in all of my life.
In honor of fighting for joy, today I'm wearing yellow. A color full of joy.
Fight for joy in your life.
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