The Bullet of Joy: Fulfilling a Purpose
Christians in name only will probably miss my point today. I have a truth to share that only those who have tasted the Spirit of Christ will be able to comprehend.
True Believers should look for their joy in Jesus Christ alone. Only in being consumed with God’s reasons for everything … family, life, fun, purpose, work, etc. … can a human being know “life” as God created it to be.
The question is then asked, “Why is it that so many Christians seem cranky or sad, and seem to live life that is flatter than a duck’s instep?
The answer is easy! God’s bottom line purpose for our lives is to make us like Himself … to conform us to His Character … to make us like Jesus!
Our Master led the most fantastic life ever lived because His home and purpose were in the Father rather than situations that surrounded Him or in the current fads of so-called worldly wisdom.
Our blindness to the false promises of fleshy fulfillment and unfaithfulness to the high standards and realities of God give us a problem. Hence, the Lord must continually allow pressures to build in our lives so that we will be forced to reject the false and embrace the truth!
Every “prison situation” we feel trapped in is in reality only God’s classroom to focus our attention on our current needed divine homework.
To sum it up, God puts people into “joyless situations” for a season to test the purity of their motives and affections. Only in a joyless trial can we give powerful evidence that the source of our joy is in God and not in situations or circumstance.
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