Reflecting on the inverse relationship between joy and anger... Digging through the Scriptures to better understand joy... Today my heart settled on this:
I consider my looks, my actions, my words. Do they express joy?
Sure. Usually. Sometimes. Well, occasionally. Definitely not always.
For the next two weeks, as I commit this short passage to memory, I will recite it in my head before I speak. Daily, hundreds of times (I do talk a lot), I will allow God's Word to remind me, and pray that joy overtakes anger, peace overtakes strife, love overtakes irritability.
Be joyful always.On dictionary.com I find joyful defined as "full of joy, as a person or one's heart; showing or expressing joy, as looks, actions, or speech."
~ 1 Thessalonians 5:16
I consider my looks, my actions, my words. Do they express joy?
Sure. Usually. Sometimes. Well, occasionally. Definitely not always.
For the next two weeks, as I commit this short passage to memory, I will recite it in my head before I speak. Daily, hundreds of times (I do talk a lot), I will allow God's Word to remind me, and pray that joy overtakes anger, peace overtakes strife, love overtakes irritability.
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"You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore." Psalm 16:11
ReplyDeleteFullness of joy and pleasures forevermore! Wow, what promises.
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